Angélica Liddell, winner of the National Theatre Award

BarcelonaPlaywright, director, and performer Angélica Liddell (Figueres, 1966) was awarded the National Theater Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and endowed with 30,000 euros. The jury particularly praised her performance. Dämon. Bergman's Funeral, that It could be seen at last year's Grec Festival and which made Liddell the first Spanish artist to open the prestigious Avignon Festival. The show "encapsulates a critical way of working, which makes no concessions and invites reflection and debate," says the jury. Other pieces by the Figuere-born artist also stand out, such as Voodoo (3318) Blixen andTerebrant, with which, she says, "she has consolidated a career as a playwright, director and performer defined by a language of enormous risk and quality, which has confirmed her as a reference both inside and outside Spain for contemporary stage creation."

Liddell is one of the most radical and innovative artists on the contemporary scene and a regular at the Temporada Alta festival, where precisely This fall will premiere a new creation. It is about Seppuku: Mishima's Funeral, or the Pleasure of Dying, a piece that revisits the funeral of the Japanese writer Mishima, promises radicalism and poetry and will begin at five thirty in the morning, and will close the funeral trilogy of the artist, after having staged his own and that ofBergmanLiddell made her playwright debut in 1988 with Greta wants to commit suicide, and has since written, directed, and performed in over 50 shows. Among his most notable are The false suicide (2000), The house of strength (2009) and the binomial A rib on the table (2019) and Liebestod (2021). Her productions have been performed at major festivals and venues around the world, such as the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna and the Odéon Theatre in Paris.

Liddell's texts have also been translated into Portuguese, German, and French. The artist has received several awards, including the SGAE Theatre Prize in 2004, the National Prize for Dramatic Literature in 2012, and the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale for theatre in recognition of her entire body of work. Furthermore, in 2017 she was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of France, one of the country's highest cultural distinctions.