Although most newspapers today carry ostentatious culinary guides from supposed experts for hungry gourmets and wealthy snobs, I don't think there's anything like the one a starred chef prepares for his friends at the Villarroel restaurant.

Roger Coma's seven-year professional block has come to an end with the monologue This shouldn't be done, which is being shown until April 15th at the Espacio Texas in Barcelona. Halfway between thestand up In the autobiographical account, the actor explains the anecdote of being commissioned to deliver the eulogy for an aunt he hadn't really met, and infuses that hour with hilarious reflections on the difference between what we do and what we feel, based on the mechanism of focusing so closely on a detail that a small chasm emerges. We take advantage of the new show to review the career of one of the most restless figures of his generation.