"Sing to me, Muse, of the man of many wiles who wandered far and wide, / after he sacked the holy city of Troy." This is how the new Catalan version of the begins.

In a slightly more just world, the jury of the award to which Dolors Miquel (Lleida, 1960) submitted El pit adormit at the end of 2024 would have proclaimed her book as the winner. It didn't happen that way, but the work has finally seen the light of day: in almost 500 pages of impressive intensity and ambition, the poet –author of some twenty volumes, including Haikús del camioner (Empúries, 1999) and El guant de plàstic rosa (Edicions 62, 2016)– combines various narrative threads, such as the detection and evolution of the cancer that was diagnosed five years ago, the chronicle of how Catalan poetry was reborn in the late nineties thanks to an alternative circuit of readings, reflections on misogyny – that of the past and that of the present – and fragments in which family memories intertwine with a passion for reading and writing.

How do you write beauty? The poet Dolors Miquel does it like this: "Her small and pretty heart comes out from among the tons of fat. Like a butterfly comes out of its cocoon." Now, how is this represented on stage? What must a performer do to convey the feeling of a "sheep with its throat cut open and through which all the blue blood of the world flows"? The challenges of converting Kill me psychosis In a show, they were considerable, but director and playwright Lucia Del Greco (Rome, 1992) joined in with enthusiasm. "I like projects that drive me crazy, that have unknowns and an air of mystery. It's important that things take us by surprise," explains Del Greco. Kill me psychosis It can be seen at the Joan Brossa Free Arts Center until March 9 and is Lucia Del Greco's new production afterThe heart's desire (2022), The Enchanted Ones (2023) and Pure passion (2024).