It is increasingly difficult to find classic theatrical pieces that maintain the aroma of their time. Today, the adaptations and directions inevitably bet on updating the great classics, so that the country’s stages are filled with very diverse proposals, but always modern, because they are either current or have been updated. Like La plaça del Diamant, the play that will open the 2023-2024 season of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, and which could already be seen in the Grec amphitheatre.
300 el x 50 el x 30 el
The Belgian anarchist collective FC Bergman opens the season with a story that starts from Noah’s ark, visual, without words. (Free, 13-14/IX)
The party
Sergi Belbel has adapted and directs the Sally Potter film, an acid comedy about friendship and power, with a classy cast. ( Polyorama, 15/IX-5/XI)
Congress does not work
Calòrica goes to the Congress of Vienna in 1814, the end of the old regime, to raise a political proposal about the current capitalist society. (Free, 20/IX-22/X)
The night of the Living Dead. Live!
This is not a joke. The legendary film by George A. Romero comes to life at Paral·lel, in an immersive, musical, humorous and terrifying proposal at the same time. (County, 22/IX-5/XI)
Sanchis Sinisterra Cycle
Sala Beckett dedicates autumn to its founder, with four reference works: The reader by the hour (27/IX-29/X); Ay Carmela! 28/IX-1/X); Deserts grow at night (6-8/X), and Lifelong).
Diamond Square
Carlota Subirós directs and signs with Ferran Dordal a new adaptation of Mercè Rodoreda’s great novel, this time using a dozen actresses who all play the role of the protagonist. (TNC, 28/IX-05/XI)
the ghost donut
From the author and director Mariano Tenconi Blanco, the T de Teatre play four teachers from the seventies in a comedy that is an immoral satire on morality. (Romea, 29/IX-26/XI)
By Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs
The couple of creators returns with a proposal that uses their name for the title and that they announce that it is a show about the essence of every relationship: the ego. (TNC, 5/X-5/XI)
our city
Ferran Utzet brings to the stage the legendary and praised work of the North American playwright Thornton Wilder about what it means to be human, through the history of a rural population over the years. (Free, 11/X-12/XI)
Love, love, love
Julio Manrique directs this piece by Mike Bartlett about a couple who are formed by the Beatles’ song, the first one broadcast via satellite, but who will realize over the years that love is not enough. (La Villarroel, 15/X-3/XII)
The friend found again
Jordi Martínez stars in the adaptation of the play by Fred Ulhman set in the Nazi era, with dramaturgy by Josep Maria Miró and direction by Joan Arqué. (Goya, 18/X-12/XI)
happy endings are for others
Produced by Nelson Valente, Mariano Saba adapts Ricardo III and brings it to the daily life of the present. (La Villarroel, 23/X-27/XI)
The infamy
Banned by Vox in some towns, Marta Nieto and Marina Salas present this work by Lydia Cacho, a Mexican journalist and activist, kidnapped and tortured for her ideas. (Borràs, 15-26/XI)
conquerors
Ramon Madaula has fictionalized the shooting of a series about Jaume I the Conqueror, in which the actor does not quite find the character. (Goya, 17/XI-7/I)
Frankenstein’s mother
The director of the TNC, Carme Portaceli, directs the theatrical adaptation of the novel by Almudena Grandes, which is the portrait of a country where social and ideological differences determine human relations. (TNC, 22/XI-30/XII)
Escape room 2
Héctor Claramunt and Joel Joan return, with the second part of their celebrated black comedy. (County, 5-23/XII)
Catalan version, here
