While actor and director Pau Roca (Barcelona, 1982) was saying goodbye to Every Brilliant Thing –a monologue he has performed intermittently since 2018, in hundreds of shows–, Miki Esparbé (Manresa, 1983) was taking notes frantically from the stalls. “It is beautiful to see how this play can go through the performer, because the message gets across, whether they do it one way or another. But Pau has done it so many times that he has an impressive stage presence,” explains Esparbé. He will debut on November 4th at the Teatre Borràs, taking the lead in this text by Duncan McMillan that bets everything on a single actor and the audience. Without scenery and with the house lights on at all times, Every Brilliant Thing takes one of the great values of theater to the extreme: the fact that it is a shared and changing experience.

Miki Esparbé, one of the most popular Catalan actors, has been one of the latest guests on the program L'eclipsi, from 3Cat. Roger Escapa's space for intimate and relaxed interviews allows guests to end up explaining things they had never shared with the public, and this is precisely what happened to Esparbé. The actor from Barcelona, nit d'estiu has revealed to the Catalunya Ràdio journalist the near-death experience he had when he was six years old.

It's almost predictable that a film about a child piano prodigy begins with the protagonist playing like a virtuoso, but it's not that the piano he's playing is the one in a funeral home where the child is trying to process the fact that his mother has just died. Wolfgang, which premieres this Friday, is the big commercial bet of Catalan cinema in 2025, a friendly family comedy with an openly popular vocation that, however, addresses issues often taboo in this type of cinema, such as grief, mental health, and suicide. All these themes were already in the eponymous book by Laia Aguilar, which adapts the film and which "excited" the director Javier Ruiz Caldera when he read to her: "I have two daughters and I go to the movies a lot with them, and I miss movies that both they and I can enjoy, movies about characters that deal with emotions and somewhat complex themes and that then, when we leave the theater, give rise to a conversation."

It's almost predictable that a film about a child piano prodigy begins with the protagonist playing like a virtuoso, but it's not that the piano he's playing is the one in a funeral home where the child is trying to process the fact that his mother has just died. Wolfgang, which premieres this Friday, is the big commercial bet of Catalan cinema in 2025, a friendly family comedy with an openly popular vocation that, however, addresses issues often taboo in this type of cinema, such as grief, mental health, and suicide. All these themes were already in the eponymous book by Laia Aguilar, which adapts the film and which "excited" the director Javier Ruiz Caldera when he read to her: "I have two daughters and I go to the movies a lot with them, and I miss movies that both they and I can enjoy, movies about characters that deal with emotions and somewhat complex themes and that then, when we leave the theater, give rise to a conversation."