Sala Atrium presents Bartleby, the theatrical adaptation of Herman Melville's story, signed and directed by Llàtzer Garcia. Based on Carme Camacho's translation, the play sets the action in a Wall Street office where the routine of a well-off lawyer is disrupted when his new scrivener, Bartleby, decides to respond to any order with the emblematic phrase: "I would prefer not to."
Performed solo by Albert Prat, the play shows how this passive and mysterious resistance spreads through all aspects of the protagonist's life. The lawyer ends up trapped in an existential dilemma that profoundly transforms him, due to his mixture of perplexity and compassion towards the rebellious worker. A work that invites us to reflect on work, disobedience, and alienation in modern society.