Synopsis
Can a corporate memo touch the human soul? Is labour exploitation the path to enlightenment? Is God dead, or are they now to be found in a PowerPoint? Curling is the answer to all of these questions.
A caustic satire, a workplace dystopia and a psychedelic comedy of manners, Curling follows the adventures of Eusebio Morcillo, a recent hire on the Experience Facilitators team at the city's preeminent opera house, the newly reopened Grand Walhall Theatre, whose upcoming show aims to lift audiences to unprecedented heights of pleasure. Eusebio's employment hinges on its success, and his managers will stop at nothing to satisfy their clients. As he submits to an aggressive new training programme, he falls in with a group of employees plotting to bring down the house – literally.
Yaiza Berrocal's incendiary debut novel, in Sian Creely's phenomenal and side-splittingly witty translation, explores a precarious corporate world filled with dime-store gurus, drug-addled coworkers and middle managers seeking nirvana in job satisfaction. Time to fan the flames.
About the author
Yaiza Berrocal Guevara (1991, Llinars del Vallès) is a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, whose book La cadena del frío won the 2020 Calderón de la Barca National Prize. She is author of the plays La isla de los lobos, Ni temeré les feres, the texts of Cartografia del cos estrany, and La croada dels infants, her version of Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade. As a screenwriter she has worked in television and film fiction. Her novel Curling has been published by Hurtado y Ortega in 2022.
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