La Vanguardia has made its selection, suggestive as all, of ten plays that have marked 2022. There are many more that deserve to be on the list, because this year post-pandemic activity has recovered almost one hundred percent in all areas . And it has been done bordering on excellence. In any case, this exhibition is just a bunch of good proposals, which demonstrate the good theatrical creativity that fills our stages.
It premiered in 2017 in London and, due to a series of circumstances, it could not be released in its original language, Catalan, until 2022 at La Villarroel. But L'oreneta has not lost one iota of its validity since Guillem Clua, after the "doubly homophobic attack" that claimed the lives of fifty people in an LGTBI venue in Florida, wrote it in one go, with the rage that consumed him.
L'oreneta tells the story of a music teacher and a student who attends private classes, because he wants to perform the title song in homage to a friend who died in an attack. Guillem Clua, with Emma Vilarasau and Dafnis Balduz directed by Josep Maria Mestres, deserve to be at the top of this selection.
Premiered in Temporada Alta, this magisterial piece by Josep Maria Miró arrived at the Romea and will travel to Madrid, The most beautiful body that has ever been found in this place, a text of admirable precision, where Pere Arquillué gives voice to cinco personajes sin no scenographic change.
A body of a beautiful young man is found dead in the middle of a field, with his genitals torn off. Abuses, guilt and atonement make up this work, directed by Xavier Albertí. Arquillué refers: “Miró's text is fantastic, very high, I think it is the most powerful thing that has been written in the country in recent years. In each function, when I see the mountain that I have to climb, it takes me from everything ”.
Los Galindos, with Bet Garrell and Marcel Escolano at the front, inaugurated the 22-23 season of the TNC with MDR (Death of laughter), "a farce to make you uncomfortable and entertain". This street show found its place in the outdoor spaces adjacent to the Sala Tallers, to denounce the malfunctioning of justice.
Anicet Leone, Gabriel Agosti and Marcel Escolano are the clowns who turn everything in their path upside down and upside down, with real danger to their physical integrity, in an overwhelming show, with the artistic collaboration of Bet Garrell and Santi Ruiz Albalate .
Directed by Julio Manrique, this anguishing story of Anja Hilling could be seen in Catalan at Sala Beckett in Barcelona and at Las Naves del Español in Spanish. Animal negro tristeza tells the story of a group of urban friends who go to the woods to have a barbecue and end up setting it on fire.
“We have burned the forest and what do we do? asks Manrique. As in a Greek tragedy, the question is the same: who are we? Hilling's word is very powerful, poetic, precise, with an almost obsessive eye for details."
Premiered in Madrid two years ago, after touring half of Spain, A Moonless Night has now arrived in Barcelona, at the TNC. Written and performed by Juan Diego Botto, the work approaches the myth of Lorca as never before.
The piece is directed by Sergio Peris-Mencheta, and has the music of Alejandro Pelayo and the collaboration of Rozalén. A phenomenon of Spanish theater in recent years.
Pau Carrió took on Dostoyevsky's novel, based on the translation by Miquel Cabal Guarro, to present a big bet on this classic of universal literature, Crim i càstig.
With the complicity of Pol López in the role of the tortured murderer Raskólnikov, the Free Theater paid tribute to the Russian author in his bicentenary, with Míriam Iscla in a standout role among a luxurious cast.
Based on the novel by Cristina Morales, Alberto San Juan has made the theatrical adaptation, which he has also directed, of Lectura fácil. The show premiered at the Centro Dramático Nacional and will arrive at the Teatre Lliure in April 2023.
San Juan summarizes the plot as follows: “Four girls with great difficulties adapting to the rules, with diagnoses of disability, live in a supervised apartment. It is a work about the desire for life and the difficulty of carrying it out in a system designed against the living”.
The musical has returned with force to Barcelona. The production of Golfus de Roma, which in Madrid starred Carlos Latre and in Barcelona is Jordi Bosch who leads this circus troupe at the Condal, coincides on the billboard with other succulent proposals.
Sondheim's musical shares honors with Pares normals, the musical by Els Amics de les Arts, Marc Artigau and Minoria Absoluta, which can be seen at the Poliorama.
The passage of time is a constant in fiction, especially when it hides secrets, disagreements and regrets. The music band that some friends had in the house of one of them is what returns in maturity, due to the accidental absence of some of its components.
It is about Al final, les visions, the work by Llàtzer Garcia, which this playwright premiered at the Becket: “It is a fable based on a tragedy that we experienced with some friends twenty years ago. It is about how you survive a tragedy if you are the survivor and how you live with these absences”.
To finish, a small pearl that premiered in Maldà: The secondaries. Bernat Cot and Laura Aubert are the performers and also responsible for the dramaturgy of this production of the Els Pirates Teatre company.
“We wanted to pay homage to those actors who play secondary roles and also to all those who work behind a production. And it seemed to us that the golden age of Paral·lel, the twenties, gave us play”, explain the performers of this show with touches of a musical, in which they each play dozens of characters.
