La Calòrica and T de Teatre get married

It has been a long time since they loved each other and now they have decided to take the step. T de Teatre and La Calòrica, two of the most relevant Catalan companies of the present, will join forces for a joint show that will premiere at the Teatre Poliorama on February 3, 2027. "From the beginning we have been admirers of La Calòrica. A year ago we proposed to get married and they said yes immediately," explains Àgata Roca, from T de Teatre. The union already has a creation underway titled Les dones Piñeiro, written by the "calòric" playwright playwright Joan Yago and directed by the also "calòric" playwright Israel Solà. "We have been fans of T de Teatre since we were very young, for us they have been a reference all our lives. It is a real luxury to be here," states Júlia Truyol, from La Calòrica, during a ceremony they organized at the Nau Bostik to formalize the union, with a popular sardine feast included.

Like any good wedding, those involved have taken advantage of the party to exchange praise. "La Calòrica has a way of understanding teamwork that identifies with us. They defend collective, consensual, and demanding work, with a very specific humor and critical perspective," says Roca. For her and her teammates –Carme Pla, Mamen Duch, and Esther Pérez– creating with the "calòrics" calòrics "is stimulating and enriching," and it brings them into contact with a generation different from their own. "We have always worked with people our age. They are much younger, and this allows us to open up a range of possibilities when imagining characters," Roca emphasizes.

On the other side of the union, the enthusiasm is shared. "T de Teatre has been working together for 35 years. We know how difficult that is; we have been doing it for 15 and it already shows. Furthermore, they produce shows from original texts and have not settled for a single formula. They always look for new languages and new ways of working, and that pushes us not to become complacent," states Esther López, from La Calòrica. In fact, the company –also formed by Xavi Francès, Aitor Galisteo-Rocher, and Marc Rius– has opted to work with older actresses on previous occasions, such as Mònica López in What are we talking about while we are not talking about all this shit (2021) and Roser Batalla in Le Congrès ne marche pas (2023). And although in principle the union will be temporary, they have decided to give themselves a name: T de Calòrica.

Fight in a boiler factory

This theatrical union involves the performers of the two companies –all nine of them in total will take the stage– and also the entire artistic teams. Together they will stage Les dones Piñeiro, a show about union and worker struggle in the 1980s in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The thread of the story will be the Piñeiro family, originally from Galicia, who work in a boiler and thermostat factory. "It's a play about family, class, gender, and identity that is inspired by many real struggles, like that of Seat," explains Carme Pla.

The show mirrors the factory closures that the unionists carried out to demand better working conditions in a context of industrial crisis. The protagonists will be "women who fight for a better salary, to be better colleagues and better mothers, and above all, to leave no one behind," says Truyol. Behind them, a banner with the slogan "United we are stronger" certifies the essence and intention of T de Calòrica.