Meaning The House of Strength in Spanish, the title’s casa is one of solitude, a place of humiliation and frustration in which Lidell's characters compensate for their excesses of emotion through strenuous physical efforts. In Lidell’s words, La Casa de la Fuerza communicates "how love fails, how intelligence fails and how we destroy each other through our cowardice; we humiliate and are humiliated until the very end."

Hailed as having coined her own theatrical language and praised for her capacity for performance and expressionism, the Figueres-born playwrite balances the purity and heartwrenching expressionism of her work with social critique and the search for meaning through pain and subversion. A great success at the Festival de Otoño de Madrid in 2009 and at the Avignon Festival in 2010, Lidell's play is a must-see for anyone with an interest in the physical aspects of dramatic performance or in the healing properties of exercise and movement.

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This recommendations comes from InTheMotion, a contemporary performing arts consultancy and communications group.