The management of the Mercat de Música Viva de Vic had fueled the mystery by announcing a special opening show: Non concerto, whose stage director, Lucia del Greco, had not wanted to reveal any details. Only the purpose had emerged, to raise questions about what live music is or should be, and the musical material, the album Una lunghissima ombra (2025) by the Italian musician Andrea Laszlo De Simone. The result lived up to expectations, because with elegance and respect for the music it shot at the waterline of live music: the pact according to which the audience admits that what sounds is the result of the action of people playing an instrument. Daring and bewilderment at the same time in a magnificent staging.

Is the cult of the musical idol sidelining the music? Does a concert-goer get excited by the music and the way it is being performed on stage, or simply by being in front of their favorite artist or band? Do the stage elements hinder or amplify the songs? If the music is the most important thing, is it legitimate to put tickets on sale without visibility? Is live music better experienced individually or as a collective experience? Does it make any sense to follow a performance 30 meters from the stage while only looking at screens? Is it necessary to see the artist playing to enjoy a concert?

If contemporary theater has two paths—that of plays where the text takes precedence and that of shows driven by visual imagery—Lucia del Greco (Rome, 1992) always chooses the latter. The Italian creator is one of the most established young talents on the Catalan stage. Anyone who has seen her previous works—such as The Enchanted Ones (2023), Pure passion (2024) or Kill me psychosis (2025)—knows that it also proposes to delve into a unique and captivating universe that takes viewers to unexpected places. Lucia del Greco's creations are the furthest thing from an exact and precise adaptation of a text. And this is precisely what she has now done with the novel Womenby Louisa May Alcott. The show Little WomenThe play, which runs at the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia from October 23 to November 30, is a completely free adaptation of the book in which the artist imagines the characters' flip side applied to contemporary life.

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).