Two years ago, director Ferran Utzet and actress Emma Vilarasau were looking for allies and producers to stage an ambitious project: to bring to the stage La truita by the Frenchman Baptiste Amann, a family tragicomedy that required eight performers on stage. Finally, they found the company Bitò, the Teatre Poliorama, and the Grec Festival as accomplices, and the production is about to become a reality. La truita will be performed from June 27 to August 8 at Poliorama within the Grec and will then inaugurate this same theater, where it will have a run from September 8 to October 18, with plans to tour Catalonia in 2027. "It is a great spectacle that requires a team of phenomenal actors. We wanted to do it on a grand scale, it is demanding in terms of casting and also the scenic device," states Utzet. For the production, he has used a translation by Carles Batlle, who is the one who discovered the play to him.

There are few shows on the Catalan stage that bring together top-tier actors and actresses and give them leading roles designed to make them all shine on stage. The children, Lucy Kirkwood's play is one of those opportunities, and the public knows it and has made it known: before the opening on Saturday, February 7th at the Villarroel Theatre, more than 15,000 tickets have already been sold, a new advance sales record for the venue. The first four performances are sold out, and for many of the others (the play runs until March 29th), only a few seats remain. The three main attractions of the show are the actors Emma Vilarasau, Jordi Boixaderas, and Mercè Aránega, who star in a tragicomedy about the responsibility of current generations for the future. David Selvas directs, in a production by La Brutal with a translation by Cristina Genebat.

Yesterday in Congress, Miriam Nogueras used an expression that we will hear about, when she said that "The survival of the Catalan identity is not guaranteed."It was during the plenary session of Congress that, as we have been explaining, the delegation of immigration powers to the Generalitat was defeated, as agreed by the PSOE and Junts, with the combined votes of the PP, Vox, and Podemos.

Actress Emma Vilarasau will be the town crier for La Mercè 2025. This was announced this Thursday by the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, at the presentation of the first new features related to the city's main festival. The Mayor wished to recognize Vilarasau's four-decade career in the world of culture and acting. The actress will kick off the festivities in the Catalan capital.

Emma Vilarasau, recently winner of the Gaudí for best female lead for her role in House on fire, has revealed one of the most difficult moments of her professional career. The renowned Catalan actress, with a career spanning more than 40 years in the world of acting, has explained the impact that becoming pregnant had on her work and how the world of cinema and theatre receives the fact that women want to be mothers.

I always repeat it: I like stories about families, inside houses, "talking" movies, novels in which "it seems like nothing happens." I love Bullet Park, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Hanna and Her Sisters, Garden by the Sea, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...