After lowering the shutter of the gas station Grand Canyon At the beginning of August, and before picking it up again to start the season at La Villarroel (from September 10 to 21), Joan Carreras has a few days of absolute relaxation. This tranquility is what invites him to recommend a book like The idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a novel he had read as a teenager and reread a couple of years ago because he was able to voice over the 25-hour audiobook. "It sounded like a big, complex book to me, and upon revisiting it, I found it fascinating, fantastic, a revealing and very contemporary work," says the actor, who has also performed Russian classics in the theater, such as Ivanov by Chekhov.

The playwright Sergi Pompermayer (Barcelona, ​​​​1967) began writing the American Trilogy after fulfilling a dream: to travel a section of Route 66 in the United States with his partner, actress Mireia Aixalà, and reach the Grand Canyon. There, the idea of creating three plays rooted in Catalonia, but with the colonial past as a backdrop, was born. The first to premiere was America, about the fall from grace of a bourgeois family and its links to slavery, and now comes Grand Canyon, which I had actually written before. Directed by Pere Arquillué, the production is part of the Grec festival and will be at La Villarroel from this Sunday until August 3.

Between the first and last sentence of Heart of lovers, From Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues (Lisbon, 1977), thirteen years passed. In 2007 he wrote the play, which is his debut, and in 2020 he decided to resume working on it to finish it. who is the current director of the prestigious Avignon Festival. The Portuguese artist has settled in Barcelona to direct a new production, Lovers' Heart, starring Marta Marco and Joan Carreras, which premieres this Friday at the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia, where it can be seen until May 25. With this show, Rodrigues wanted to explore the idea of love and the passage of time. An emergency situation arises: one of the two members of the couple may die, they need to go to the hospital, and every minute feels like an eternity. "At that moment, they tell themselves that if they survive, they will live differently. The risk of death leads them to think that they could have used their time better," says Rodrigues. hour on stage.

Between the first and last sentence of Heart of lovers, Thirteen years passed since the creation of Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues (Lisbon, 1977). In 2007, he wrote the play, which is his debut, and in 2020, he decided to resume work to finish it. "I didn't rewrite anything, I just added things. Just like in life, you can't change anything, you only add experiences," explains Rodrigues, who is the current director of the prestigious Avignon Festival. The Portuguese artist has settled in Barcelona to direct a new production, Lovers' Heart, starring Marta Marco and Joan Carreras, which premieres this Friday at the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia, where it can be seen until May 25.