It marks a bridge between a staged reading and a full theatre performance. The evening opens today in this format. Ockham Navy, a company that collaborated with David Sánchez, earned the XXIII Teatre Breu Award at the Valencià Evarist Garcia festival last September. The show starts at 20:00 at Teatre Arniches in Alicante, presenting for the first time the winning production of the competition organized by Kultur la space and the Alicante County Council.
Recolectores Teatro, led by Ivan Jimenez, is responsible for this staging along with performers Roo Castillo Berenguer, Diego Juan, and Anna Berenguer. A live sound environment enhances the experience thanks to collaboration with musician Daniel Carrillo, and Sara Torra handles wardrobe for the production.
The show will be enriched by the percussion voices of Colla de Dolçainers and Tabaleters Sant Antón d’Alacant and will receive additional support from actor Xavier Monzo. As host for the evening, the event was announced by the regional authorities who invited the public to participate in a distinctive theatrical event that forms part of Alicante’s cultural program. Admission is free until capacity is reached.
David Sánchez won the Evarist García Award for “La Navyla d’Ockham” from Teatre Breu in Valencia.
The work’s premise unfolds around a sequence of challenges that surface after an incident involving a kindergarten teacher. The plot weaves taboo topics and traumas, blending past and present and mixing professional life with personal experiences. The production invites audiences to confront difficult subjects with clarity and empathy, turning private distress into a collective reflection.
Books collected as memories of lives cut short appear as symbols of life and death, with two knife-like fragments representing the fragility and transience of human existence. The narrative emphasizes that when words fail to name experiences, emotions, people, losses, or actions, life risks becoming porous and incomplete, filled with unrealized possibilities.
The jury for the latest Evarist García Prize, chaired by the deputy for Culture, included Jaume Selles representing the Conselleria d Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport; Isabel Marcillas, Doctor of Catalan Philology at the University of Alicante; Jaume Lloret, professor of Catalan Philology at UA; and Mª Angeles French, PhD in Catalan Philology.
Theatrical orbit
David Sánchez Pacheco, born in Torremendo in 1994, is a graduate in Catalan Philology from the University of Alicante and currently teaches in the Barcelona area. From childhood he has been linked to dramatic art through his hometown theatre troupe. He later joined the UA Theater Class and performed with Teatre Raspeig companies under Miguel Segura’s direction, contributing to ambitious projects such as Sobreactuà by Elena Candela and at l’Escola Hamlet Roger C Dorca.
He has pursued extensive theatre training with seasoned professionals, expanding his craft alongside notable figures such as Jose Gabriel Fields, main sal, Joan Nave, and more recently at Sala Beckett with Josep Maria Miro, Sergi Belbel, Father Riera, Marc Martin, and Silvia Navarro.
Across his creative journey, he has earned several recognitions, including the Ciutat d’Alcoi Theater Award for Pep Cortés for the work La Pedregada (2021) and the Mario Benedetti poetry prize AU in 2014, along with a short story and poetry competition for a Novelist from the State of Alicante in 2016.