Angélica Liddell, Gabriel Calderón... the productions that Temporada Alta 2025 will premiere

BarcelonaAfter sweeping through Barcelona again with Voodoo (3328) BlixenAngélica Liddell will once again give her world premiere at the Temporada Alta festival in the fall. Seppuku It will be a celebration of ritual suicide and a tribute to Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) that will unite eroticism, beauty and death, ingredients typical of the theatricality of the Spanish artist - and more so in the funeral trilogy which will close with this show, after having staged his own and that of Bergman.

The other international artist who will debut in Girona in a festival production will be Gabriel Calderón, with an experiment similar to the successful one The Story of a Wild Boar (or something by Richard), that is, an original text by the Uruguayan and a Catalan cast (Pere Arquillué, Daniela Brown, Joan Carreras and Laura Conejero). Alas! Misery will make us happy. will discuss the usefulness and meaning of art in the age of artificial intelligence. The third foreign artist is Belgian artist Miet Warlop, who will premiere an ode to the imagination entitled Inhale Delirium Exhale.

Half a year before the Temporada Alta festival kicks off, in the first edition directed by Narcís Puig, the 17 in-house and co-productions that will be on display have been presented. 13 of these are premieres, 4 are international proposals, and 13 are Catalan-created shows. "There will be continuity; the festival won't change its face; it certainly won't in the first year, and it won't radically change in the next few years," says Puig. "I've been working on Temporada Alta for fourteen years; it has a very consolidated structure that works, so the essence shouldn't change. There will be more commercial offerings and more outlandish or experimental offerings, so that everyone can find them."

In terms of Catalan authorship, it's worth highlighting projects such as Bárbara Mestanza's new show on cancel culture, Fire; the company Mos Maiorum, which addresses the story of the libertarian Joan Garcia Oliver; Marta Barceló with a delicate text about The last six days of a mother and the relationship between his three children, in a Mallorcan co-production; the company Moukhles & Sentís, which addresses identity in its second creation, Alphabet; and the playwright Josep Maria Miró, who will take it to Girona The housekeeper (view of the Heartbreak Hotel room) and will premiere The monster (Quim Masó Award 2024). It will also be available to watch again. Throat, by Oriol Pla and Pau Matas, which continues to tour, as do almost forty other co-productions of the festival.

There will be two high-voltage dramatized readings, in collaboration with the Classics Festival: David Verdaguer will lend his voice to a selection of texts that Oscar Wilde wrote from prison (De profundis) and Elisabet Casanovas will perform the Anaïs Nin's DiariesAs a Girona DO creation, there will be the Cor de Teatre with High, a show using virtual instruments and artificial intelligence projections; the family show Lumiero from La Menuda, and the new dance show from extraordinary veterans like Mal Pelo, We: us and the times. Also in dance, the creation of Roser López Espinosa.

The festival continues its commitment to Catalan drama with the fifteenth edition of the Playwriting Tournament and a selection of the best short texts that have been created for the series. Bookworms, which will once again tour the Girona libraries.