'Permagel' will be a play starring Maria Rodríguez Soto

BarcelonaThe novel Permagel (Club Editor, 2018) by Eva Baltasar It will be a play directed by Victoria Szpunberg and starring Maria Rodríguez Soto. This is the big bet of the season at Espai Texas, a show that Szpunberg herself will adapt with Albert Pijuan and that will premiere on April 8. "I'm very happy and very curious. I'm releasing the protagonist of Permagel, I want to see what things of his I still don't know and I will discover", Baltasar said during the presentation of the Texas season. Published in 2018, the novel became a literary phenomenon and won awards such as the Librero and the Ojo Crítico narrative prize.

"Many hate the pure theatrical form. But Permagel "There's a power in the language that captivated me. It's a very physical language, with a lot of movement and a very theatrical quality. There's also a sense of humor that I identified with," Szpunberg emphasized. The director and playwright set a single condition when joining the project: having Rodríguez as the lead character. Eva Baltasar's work becomes a play. Permagel, the Espai Texas will host another premiere: Mismatched, a comedy written by Ramon Pardina, directed by Roc Esquius, and starring Esther López and Ramon Farré. The show is the theatrical debut of Pardina, who is a screenwriter for programs such as Poland and The strangerIn the play, the playwright imagines a couple who discover a parallel universe from their bathroom. "I'm fascinated by bathrooms from a comedic point of view. They're the nerve center of relationships; very sincere things happen there because it's the place in the home where we reveal ourselves without artifice," Pardina said. Mismatched It can be seen from November 20.

Ramon Madaula, Roger Coma and Montse Colomé

The Texas programming includes the revival of two comedies that have made a name for themselves in the lineup: Sheep, by Carmen Marfà and Yago Alonso, and Loop, by Ramon Madaula. Humor, in fact, has a fundamental presence on the stage of this Gràcia venue with other offerings such as the improvisation show Murder at the club and Roger Coma's monologue I shouldn't do itThere will also be a dance performance, Celebration of Montse Colomé, with which the dancer and choreographer celebrates life and has toured Catalonia, making audiences dance. In addition, the venue is preparing a Catalan-authored musical that will premiere at the 2026 Grec Festival. The Texas season has kicked off with Archimedes' principle by Josep Maria Miró in the new version directed by Leonardo V. Granados.