Les Chevaliers. Chapter 2, The Broken Sword draws inspiration from the imagery of Arthurian legends to question the idea of the epic and its inheritances. Not from admiration, but from the fissure: from loss, clumsiness, and irony. The knight-detectives are no longer heroes, but bodies facing the impossibility of triumph. The piece moves between adventure and ridicule, between parody and melancholy. It is a story of war without war, of feats 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 one focuses on the material and the earthly: the desire for recognition, the promise of transcendence, the need to leave a mark. But even that longing breaks apart. What remains is the echo of a broken sword, the reflection of a losing (oneself) that is accepted, possibly, as destiny.
Synopsis: Ten years have passed since three intrepid detectives set out in search of the Grail. The rain has erased the trace of their footsteps, the places where they spent the night no longer exist, and one of them has disappeared. But the other two, now turned into medieval knights, have not for a single moment abandoned the sacred self-imposed task of pursuing the impossible, the ineffable, and, in this case, also a glory that never quite arrives. Still, nothing will make their yearning 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
