After having attended the premiere of Hamlet By Peyu and Albert Pla (not the Shakespearean one, to be precise), I left the theater fascinated by the mind-bending performance they had just given us. A mind-bending performance that has the virtue of creatively summarizing all the ills of a world running rampant and without brakes: people living in their bubble of obsessions and selfishness, dysfunctional personalities behind a veneer of normality, the absurdity of a world in which it is no longer possible to live without truly living.

The program Wise nature TV3 brought together the creative talents of comic book artist Peyu and musician Albert Pla. "I invited him to lunch in Muntanyola, I made some macaroni, and here we are," says the man from Osona. Now this unlikely pair reunites on a stage, an imposing stage like Barcelona's Coliseum Theatre, to perform their unique show. Hamletwhich has nothing to do with Shakespeare. From December 23rd to April 6th, two peculiar characters will be forced to share a hospital room.

The irreverent Albert Pla and Peyu are the protagonists of the third issue of the quarterly paper magazine The Promotion, which publishes the El Foment Cultural Foundation for the entire Catalan-speaking world, and which ARA readers in the Girona region will find included free with the newspaper this Sunday, October 12. It consists of 116 pages of Catalan culture, gastronomy, and language in a magazine whose aim is to be a "national tool," in the words of its director, Andreu Mas. The magazine insert for the second consecutive quarter is part of a collaboration agreement between the ARA and The Promotion to "strengthen and promote Catalan culture, language, and gastronomy," according to Candi Granés, the founder and president of the Girona-based organization based in the Barri Vell neighborhood.

Albert Pla He is an immeasurable artist. One of those who escape any definition, style, or conventional trend that pigeonholes them. On stage, there's no one like him. He began singing in a bar in Jaén in 1989, and since then, he has been touring Catalonia, Spain, and Latin America for more than three decades with his concerts, shows, and performances. performances unclassifiable, Always provocative, yet endearing and magnetic, he balances irreverent banter with blunt truths. Now the singer is celebrating 35 years of career at the Strenes Festival in Girona (he was scheduled to perform in 2020, to commemorate his 30th birthday, but it was canceled due to the pandemic) with an extraordinary double concert on the steps of the cathedral.