A theatrical practice in recent years consists of recovering successful plays the season following their premiere. The theaters work with closed calendars, where they allocate a few weeks to each production, and they have no room to extend the exhibition period even if the work is successful. This means that they already count on replenishing them within the following season or even later. It is what in the past was called in cinema a “restocking with a premiere character”. Among these re-releases, we find excellent works, which will surely fill the audiences this first quarter.
Catalan-Argentine trilogy
Three plays by Cristina Clemente and Nelson Valente, premiered at El Grec, are still in theaters. They are Silvia, from Valente (Flyhard, until 17/IX); Rovira vs. Rodríguez, from Clemente and Valente (Versus Glòries, until 15/X); and La paella dels tijous, by Clemente (El Maldà, 18/X-19/XI).
History of a boar
Joan Carreras takes on the role of the actor who has to play the Shakespearean Ricard III, in the monologue by the Uruguayan author and director Gabriel Calderón. The 2020 co-production of Temporada Alta and the Grec festival, with translation by Joan Sellent, continues to be a dazzling proposal. (La Villarroel, 1/IX-1/X)
The most beautiful body you will ever find on this site
Pere Arquillué returns with this filigree of Josep Maria Miró, of multiple voices for a single actor and a spotlight. Directed by Xavier Albertí, this co-production of Temporada Alta and Romea tells the story of a town where a 17-year-old boy has been found dead. (Rome, 6-24/IX)
Hedda Gabler
Àlex Rigola recovers Ibsen’s work which he premiered at the Teatre Lliure to inaugurate its new theater, in the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona. With Nausicaa Bonnín in the leading role, the director wants to distill the essence of the rehearsal room in his new project. (Heartbreak Hotel, 12/IX/-15/X)
a special love
Premiered at El Grec, this musical by Jumon Erra, Daniela Feixas and Miquel Tejada tells of an impossible love that breaks taboos and walls, between a girl from the Raval, Mara Jiménez, and an executive from the upper part, Xavi Navarro. (Condal, 26/IX-15/XI)
Flowers and travel
Cabosanroque recreates the work Travels and Flowers, by Mercè Rodoreda, in this installation that gives sight to Ukrainian refugee women. (TNC Workshop Room, 29/IX-8/X)
Romeo and Juliet
The modern and queer version of Shakespeare’s classic directed by David Selvas will once again make the performers shine like the disco mirrors. (Poliorama, 2-30/X)
Finally, the visions
Llàtzer Garcia returns to Beckett with Joan Carreras, with this co-production of Grec 2022, where the past and guilt are concentrated in a house that becomes the protagonist. (Sala Beckett, 8/XI-3/XII)
Cliff
Baron d’Evel bring back this poetic wonder, which they premiered in 2019. Unmissable. (Free Theatre, 30/XI-10/XII)
america
This story of colonization and slavery through a Catalan family was the proposal of Sergi Pompermayer that deserves a replacement. Directed by Julio Manrique, Mireia Aixalà and Joan Carreras shine in particular. (La Villarroel, 6-23/XII)
Lali Simon
Emma Vilarasau once again puts herself in the shoes of this successful actress who, between monologues, has to take care of her sick mother, the scene-stealer Mont Plans, and her daughter, Júlia Bonjoch. A great trio of ladies, in this piece written and directed by Sergi Belbel. (Rome, 6-23/XII)
The joy that happens
Dagoll Dagom rests its last musical, a round and attractive proposal, starring Àngels Gonyalons, based on the work of Àngel Guimerà. (Poliorama, 9/XII-28/I)
FitzRoy
Jordi Galceran’s four climbers – Sílvia Bel, Míriam Iscla, Sara Espígul, Natalia Sánchez – will try to reach the top of Patagonia again at the end of the year. (Borràs, 20/XII-21/I)
barren
The director of the Lliure, Juan Carlos Martel Bayod, leaves his post with the replacement of his proposal on the work of Lorca, with stage space by Frederic Amat. (Free Theatre, 21/XII-4/I)
