10 outstanding shows from the Igualada Festival 2025
Dance against climate change, magic inside a caravan, and the story of wings in a garden are among the most surprising offerings of this year's edition.
BarcelonaThe performing arts once again conquer Igualada, from this Thursday through Sunday, with around 100 performances and 41 theater, circus, dance, and magic companies for family audiences. This year's 36th edition of the Igualada Showcase focuses on immersive and participatory art shows, where cultural mediation and engagement with the educational community play a key role. Among the entire program, we highlight 10 offerings for all ages:
'Arròs', by Anna Mateu Cia (+3 years)
Can climate change be fought through dance? This Valencian company says yes. Through gesture and movement, Rice reflects on the environmental problems of protected areas and water scarcity. A show for all ages based on the Albufera de Valencia (Valencia Lagoon) and a cry for building a better, more sustainable future.
'Why is a tree a flock?', by MA Compagnie and Marc Lacourt (4+ years)
From France, the Igualada Festival brings this production aimed at young children, set in a large blackboard with a white drawing floor. Inspired by the Dada movement, the company explores words, abstraction, and dance, demonstrating that theater can also become a collective creation where everyone can express (and draw) their own.
'Tumbalafusta', by LaRuta 40, Xavier Bobés, and Pau Matas (+5 years)
After passing through the Teatre Lliure and winning the ADETCA award in the category of singular artistic project, Tumbalamadera arrives at the Igualada Showcase. The show combines text theater, objects, and music to explore friendship, imagination, and the passage of time. All this is brought to life by a first-class artistic trio made up of La Ruta 40, Xavier Bobés, and Pau Matas.
'Maginarium', by Pau Segalés (+5 years)
A caravan with a capacity of only 16 people is the setting for this small-format show designed to surprise and spark curiosity. Inside this house on wheels, Pau Segalés unfolds his unique magical imagery, comprised of live music and visual poetry, accompanied by Adrià Viñas.
'Babynova', by Pita (+5 years)
The group Xiula is one of the leading figures in contemporary family music and uses its songs to address issues related to education and social conflicts. In this new concert-show, the band delves into a laboratory where, with the help of the audience, they must generate a new way of life that can overcome the challenges of today's world.
'Copy', by Animal Religion (+6 years)
Copying isn't allowed in school, but it is on this stage. The Animal Religion circus company, led by Quim Girón, has created a playful and moving show with a single maxim: copying others. Originality, art understood as a collective process, and connections between creators come together in this production, starring a group of children who have never rehearsed before.
'Dos alas' (Two Wings), by Farrés Brothers and Co. (+6 years)
The new creation by Igualada-based Farrés Brothers imagines an elderly man who one day finds a pair of wings in his garden. The protagonist discovers that the find actually belongs to a box full of treasures that was buried when he was a child. With the intimate atmosphere that characterizes the company, Two wings It's a nostalgic and magical journey back to memory and childhood.
'Matras', by Campi Qui Pugui (+6 years)
With the Critics' Award For Best Show for Family Audiences, the Campi Qui Pugui company recently premiered this story about a boy with three mothers in Igualada. Theirs is a tale of motherhood, illness, and death that, despite exploring deep and painful themes, does so with humor and the necessary closeness to make the audience leave the theater wanting to hug the family.
'Thauma', by La Mula (+8 years)
It's worth going in to see Thauma with a blank mind and open to everything, because this show seeks, above all, to captivate and amaze. Images and actions charged with powerful visual poetry parade across the stage in a series of scenes that exude humor, beauty, mystery, and fascination. "A stage proposal as unusual among us as it is successful," he said. ARA critic Santi Fondevila.
'Boja' by Mariona Esplugues (+14 years)
For the past 16 years, Mariona Esplugues has bounced from psychiatrist to psychiatrist in search of someone who can explain exactly what's happening to her. In this show, her debut, she shares her first-person accounts of her experience with doctors, as well as her journey in search of her own identity and the meaning of life.