Les Chevaliers. Chapter 2, The Broken Sword is inspired by the imagery of Arthurian legends to question the idea of epic and its legacies. Not from admiration, but from the fissure: from failure, clumsiness, and irony. Our knight-detectives are no longer heroines, but bodies facing the impossibility of triumph. The piece moves between adventure and absurdity, between parody and melancholy. It is a story of war without war, of quests without reward, where the battle is internal and the fall is celebrated as a way of existing.
If the first chapter delved into beauty, illumination, or the poetry of the ineffable, this second focuses on the material and the earthly: the desire for recognition, the promise of transcendence, the need to leave a trace. But even that longing breaks. What remains is the echo of a broken sword, the reflection of a failure that is assumed, perhaps, as destiny.

Synopsis: Ten years have passed since three fearless detectives set out in search of the Grail. The rain has erased the trace of their steps, the places where they once spent the night no longer exist, and one of them has disappeared. But the other two, now turned into medieval knights, have not abandoned for a single moment the sacred self-imposed task of pursuing the impossible, the ineffable, and, in this case, also a glory that never quite arrives. Even so, nothing will make their longing falter, because it is in the attempt that their only reason for being resides.

Les Chevaliers. Chapter 2: The Broken Sword has been presented at the TNT Festival, La Mutant in Valencia, and at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya as part of the ZIP Festival 2026.

A creation by Los Detectives: Mariona Naudin, María García Vera

Co-direction: Sofía Asencio, Mariona Naudin, María García Vera
Cast: Albert Pérez Hidalgo, Rubèn Ametllé, María García Vera, Mariona Naudin
Set and costume design: Jorge Dutor
Music and sound design: Pol Clusella
Lighting design: Celina Chavat
Production: Imma Bové
Graphic design and poster: Bea Lobo
Duration: 70 min