The friendship between two women who grew up together. The need to reinvent oneself in a world dominated by technology. Being young, finding yourself in a black hole and not knowing how to get out. Growing old and facing oblivion. These are not arguments for novels, nor for films, nor for plays, but for circus performances. The Fira Trapezi de Reus, which will take place from May 13 to 17, celebrates its 30th anniversary with a program focused on the diversity of the discipline and with the mission of showing that the circus goes far beyond technique: it is also dramaturgy and can also tell stories that leave the audience satisfied and moved. It will do so with productions such as Refugi, by Manolo Alcántara; Ínsula, by Alexandre Duran; Salar la pena, by Juan Carlos Panduro; 20 years later, still here!, by Lotta & Stina, and Conhort, by Hotel Iocandi, among many others. In total, the fair will host 60 Catalan and international companies with the mission of being a showcase for the circus being made abroad, but above all for what is being made in our country.

In recent years she has gone "from being Quimet Pla's daughter to Oriol Pla's sister" [the protagonist of theNow Sunday of this week]"She confirms, but Diana Pla Solina (Barcelona, ​​1991) has forged her own path in the world of physical theatre and circus. After performing since childhood in street shows and in plays such as Travy, after creating his own company and a single as Miss Things and MePla now directs El Petit Circ Laret, a newly created and free show that can be seen from December 12 to January 7 in the Christmas Circus tent in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Feixa Llarga street at the corner of Travessia Industrial). A classic circus – with Chinese pole vaulting, acrobatic bicycle, trapeze, hand-to-hand acrobatics, balancing acts, live music, and clowning – with a contemporary spirit.

When he was 17, Pau Palaus saw a show by clown Leandre Ribera for the first time, and it changed his life. "I went to see him for three days in a row. My friends asked me, 'What does he do?' And I didn't know what to answer: he did nothing, and he did everything," explains Palaus. Although he studied forestry management, Pau left a steady job as a tree arborist to embark on the performing arts: "I started a clown course at the Rogelio Rivel school, but I only lasted two weeks because I didn't understand anything they were explaining to me; they didn't teach me how to do what that clown did."

3, 2, 1! The show begins! On stage, there is only one ticket office where tickets are sold for the Palace of Illusions, where a kindly, white-bearded old man will spend an exciting afternoon with his friends. This is the starting point ofILU, the new Cirque du Soleil show designed specifically for Andorra, a collaboration that has already lasted twelve summers and has become a tourist magnet in the Principality, where the show can be seen until early August. Beyond a spectacular circus act—with trapeze artists, acrobats, and tightrope walkers in a state of grace— ILU It's a tribute to childhood, that stage of life when the boundaries between reality and fiction blur. This fantasy world, directed by Lydia Bouchard, is filled with eccentric characters, candy monsters, neighing horses, and even a leisurely polar bear. Costumes play a fundamental role in the staging. They not only help construct the characters but also reinforce their narrative.

The Greek 2025 It began on Thursday in the Montjuïc chamber with the premiere of a French proposal that combines dance, music and circus from a creator who has visited the festival twice with well-rehearsed shows: Minute (2018) and Celuy who knocks down(2023). But world premieres are dangerous. Even more so if, as we have learned, the production has been through many nerves upon its entry into the Grec. While this one The Little Circus It has some rather attractive poetic and visual ingredients that give a glimpse of what the show might be like in the future (once it has made its way to the road and revisited the connector and rhythm issues that were evident at Montjuïc), the truth is that the opening performance was rather lackluster, as evidenced by the brief and muffled applause.

Piti Español (Barcelona, ​​1954) is a writer and screenwriter for television and film. He is also a theater creator. He has been a gymnasium and acrobatics teacher. Thirty years ago, he first published The African track, now republished by La Campana. He recounts his most fantastic youthful experience: a trapeze artist in traveling circus companies in places like the Netherlands and, above all, South Africa.apartheid.

We want to recommend a range of activities for the coming days, such as the play El fill or the Petit Rec de Igualada, the great circuit of pop-up stores for fashion, gastronomy and culture.