An interest in faith and spirituality has often accompanied the actor Lluís Homar, but for some time now it has also a way of understanding the professionThis passion found its perfect partner before the pandemic, when it coincided with the musician Emili Brugalla and together they performed the recital Soul and wordwhich fused the poetry of Saint John of the Cross with the work of Frederic Mompou. From this emerged a different way of understanding the stage, the text, and the music, which is now being replicated with other protagonists: the chapter "The Grand Inquisitor" ofThe Brothers Karamazov of Dostoevsky and the spiritual works of Bach and Messiaen. The result is a performance featuring Homar on spoken word and Brugalla on piano, accompanied by Vesko Stambolov, with whom he shares a duo. Straddling the line between concert and recital, the creators define this work as a sacramental act. Under the title Bach-Dostoevsky-MessiaenThe play premieres this Sunday at the Girona Auditorium as part of the Temporada Alta festival.

After many years immersed in autofiction, Bárbara Mestanza (Barcelona, ​​1990) finds herself in the opposite camp. The playwright, director, and actress—creator of shows such as All the flowers (2020), The ugliest woman in the world (2021) and Dirty (2020)—leaves behind montages inspired by personal experience and imagines a story of persecution and cancellation starring Mae, a journalist who led the Me Too movement. Some time later, the accused aggressor attempts suicide, and one of the victims publicly states that she did not want to appear in the article. All of this culminates in a thriller about professional errors, abuse of power and social judgments with Mestanza herself, Rosa Boladeras and Júlia Molins on stage. Cutting off a foot with a chainsaw It premieres this Friday at the Teatre de Salt, as part of Temporada Alta, and will be performed at the Sala Beckett from January 14th to February 8th.

Actors Francesc Cuéllar and Lola Marceli met six years ago while working on a daily series. Central Market (RTVE), where they played a mother and son. Production ended in 2021, but they both wanted to continue working together. From that desire, a new project was born. Jusqu'ici, tout va (2022), Cuéllar's first film and the seed of the show HonestyThe film, which premieres on Saturday, December 6th at the Temporada Alta festival in Girona, will then run at the Akademia Theatre in Barcelona from December 12th to January 11th.

"I hate Putin." So says Margarita, a Ukrainian girl kidnapped from her home and given to a Russian family. An irrefutable condemnation that refutes the false narrative of Russian propaganda. And a war crime according to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which in 2023 issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president... and which becomes a reality in Margarita's mind in the play. The Hague (The Hague) by the Ukrainian playwright based in Barcelona, Sasha Denisova, which has been programmed at the Municipal Theatre of Girona within the High Season festival.

It was after seeing The madman and the shirt, the flagship work of Nelson Valente (Buenos Aires, 1971), that T de Teatre decided to sign the Argentine playwright and director for their next show. "We saw that play and went crazy. We all shared the feeling that he was a director who could take us out of our comfort zones, put us in a cocktail shaker, and shake us up," explains actress Mamen Duch. "That text has brilliant dialogue that captivated us. Nelson's plays are ensemble pieces, but they touch on relatable themes; people can identify with them, and they have a humor that can be uncomfortable," adds Àgata Roca. In recent years, Valente's appearances on the Catalan stage have become increasingly frequent. Last season he premiered Amnesia at the Teatre Nacional and, in 2020, also worked with a Catalan company in The dogs...among other productions. That's why it made perfect sense that Valente's response to T de Teatre's request was affirmative.

Six characters meet at a mountain refuge. Each speaks a different language. The audience doesn't know who they are or what they're doing in this cabin, and perhaps they still won't know when the performance ends. Swiss director Christoph Marthaler is the master of stage ambiguity, and in He submits He puts it into practice without abandoning the humor and nostalgia that characterize his creations. The production, which can be seen this Friday and Saturday at the Canal de Salt, offers the opportunity to see the work of "one of the great theater directors of the early 21st century, with his own unique and surreal language," says Narcís Puig, director of Temporada Alta. Marthaler has a long-standing relationship with the Girona festival, where previous works such as No idea (2021), King Size (2014) and The travels of Lina Bögli (2011).

The Uruguayan playwright and director Gabriel Calderón (Montevideo, 1982) has become a recurring name on the Catalan theater scene in recent years. He has achieved this by bringing shows from his native country and, above all, by creating new productions with Spanish companies. In 2018 he premiered Let the actors be destroyed at the National Theatre of Catalonia, in 2021 he promoted the brilliant and successful Story of a wild boar and now works in Oh! Misery will make us happyThe play, which premieres on November 28th at Temporada Alta and can be seen from December 4th at the Teatre Lliure, features robots acting as actors. dream team Starring: Pere Arquillué, Laura Conejero, Joan Carreras, and Daniela Brown.

Greta wants to commit suicide It is one of the first works by a young Angélica Liddell and the first to win one of the many awards that would follow, the Ciudad de Alcorcón Theatre Prize in 1988. Since then, death and suicide as a final poetic act have been omnipresent in the intense stage production of the artist born into the artist. In fact, her last two acclaimed shows revolved around her own funeral –Voodoo (3318) Blixen, in 2023 – and that of Ingmar Bergman –Dämon. Bergman's Funeral, in 2024–. The creator delivers one or more shows per year, so now she premieres in Temporada Alta Sepukku. Mishima's funeral or the pleasure of dyingwhich would close a false trilogy that resonates, and how, with suicide as one of the fine arts and death as the artist's aesthetic ideal.

In these times of virtual queues and Tickets that disappear in a few minutesThe Temporada Alta festival experienced an unusual situation at the end of summer: tickets for the two performances of the show Seppuku. Mishima's funeral, Tickets for Angélica Liddell's show sold out in just four minutes. "I thought the system was malfunctioning. It's never happened to us before," explains Narcís Puig, director of the Girona festival. The feat was even more remarkable because the artist was inviting the audience to the Salt Theatre at an unusual hour: 5:30 in the morning, both for the premiere of the work this Saturday and for the performance this Sunday.

For years, the choreographer and flamenco dancer María Pagés (Seville, 1963) uses art to reclaim the role of women through classical works and also in the contemporary world. "Ever since I visited the Prado Museum for the first time and saw that there wasn't a single painting on display by a woman, I've felt the need to highlight the female role in art," says the artist. This is the path she has followed with shows such as I, Carmen, which could be seen at Temporada Alta in 2016, and which continues now with From ScheherazadeIt is a large-scale production, with 14 performers on stage, which will premiere at the Teatre Jardí in Figueres this Saturday as part of the Girona festival.

The day her father suffered a heart attack, Mexican writer Conchi León (Mérida, 1973) began to write. From that urgent need emerged a text that delves into her childhood memories, marked by the brutal domestic violence perpetrated by her father and her inability to confront him as an adult. Young lionThe show, which premieres this Sunday in Girona as part of the Temporada Alta festival, delves into the artist's most intense memories, but without losing its sense of humor, observing his family with a critical yet tender eye and attempting to heal the deep wounds they inflicted.

The Argentine playwright Romina Paula (Buenos Aires, 1979) and her company are old friends of the Catalan public: in 2011 the play The whole time, and later at the Teatro de Salt. Since then, this work has become a benchmark of contemporary Argentine theater, and now Temporada Alta itself has included it in its Barcelona Flash de Otoño at the Teatre Lliure from October 21 to 23. Furthermore, a few days earlier, on October 18 and 19, the same festival scheduled a show from two years ago at the La Planeta venue in Girona, Shadows, of courseThe performers, Esteban Bigliardi, Esteban Lamothe, Susana Pampín, and Pilar Gamboa, are the same as in 2011, a significant milestone considering their busy schedules.

A century has passed since anarchism and syndicalism took to the streets with the conviction that the revolution was imminent, and the Mos Maiorum company is convinced that that moment has many similarities with the current era. "The drums of war were heard throughout Europe, fascism was on the rise, and inequalities were increasingly present. Now all of this resonates with us," says director Ireneu Tranis. How did people react then, in that context? Can we reflect on it? With these questions, Mos Maiorum has approached the figure of the anarchist Joan Garcia Oliver (Reus, 1902 - Mexico, 1980) and has constructed a show, We, the nameless, which premieres on October 10 in Girona (La Planeta, as part of Temporada Alta) and will run at the Sala Beckett in Barcelona from October 18. "It was a time when utopia was solid, palpable. We want to tell it and appeal to hope," adds Tranis.

The Temporada Alta festival opens with a bang, with a double concert by Patti Smith, a living legend of American rock, at the Girona Auditorium. Two weeks before the beginning of the festival, Autumn theatre programming in the Girona regions, the 78-year-old singer reviewed the best songs of her career, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of her debut album, Horsas, one of the most influential in history.

The Temporada Alta festival unveiled a new director and a new lineup this Thursday. Narcís Puig took over from Salvador Sunyer, pursuing the goal of "maintaining the established path throughout all these years," with a lineup featuring major international names and new productions by Catalan talent. The festival will take place from September 18 to December 12 in the Girona region—particularly Girona and Salt—and will feature 92 shows and 28 premieres, with a budget of nearly €3 million.

From October 21 to November 2, Barcelona will host a new festival that will bring major international shows to the Catalan capital. Dante's Voices, by Toni Servillo; The whole time, by Romina Paula; To move in time, from Forced Entertainment; Measure for measure, by Gabriel Chamé Buendia; Phaedrus!, by François Gremaud; Fatal Coup, by Alain Platel, and Double bill, by the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. The productions will be performed at the Teatre Lliure, La Villarroel, the Mercat de les Flors, the Joan Brossa Foundation, and the Teatro La Biblioteca. In the Catalan capital, "sometimes due to technical necessity, other times because we wanted to show things in Barcelona," says the director of Temporada Alta, Narcís Puig. The desire to remedy this.

After sweeping through Barcelona again with Voodoo (3328) BlixenAngélica Liddell will once again give her world premiere at the Temporada Alta festival in the fall. Seppuku It will be a celebration of ritual suicide and a tribute to Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) that will unite eroticism, beauty and death, ingredients typical of the theatricality of the Spanish artist - and more so in the funeral trilogy which will close with this show, after having staged his own and that of Bergman.