Parenthood is an infinite mystery, especially in our times. A mystery that is usually not revealed until it is too late to turn back. Or is it? In the United States, in addition to public adoption, there is private adoption. The latter is much less regulated and gives rise to phenomena such as so-called private relocation, whereby children from the rest of the world adopted in the United States can be given away online or at meetings held by some evangelical churches to place young people who have been adopted and rejected by other families.

Josep Julien (Barcelona, ​​1966) debuted as a playwright in 1998 with Absolutely far awayBut after a while, he stopped writing. He returned in 2021 with Bonobo And since then, he has become a regular on the Catalan stage. In parallel, throughout these decades, Julien has built a solid career as a theater, film, and television actor. Now he premieres at the Sala Atrium. Human flesh, a comedy starring Meritxell Calvo and Santi Ricart that brings to light the darkest thoughts of a couple driven to competitiveness for their son.

The seemingly most boring lives can hide small and large dramas. The protagonist of this dark tale by Lluïsa Cunillé is a gray man with a gray life. Despite being widely read, he has had little choice. And it's not that he didn't have youthful dreams; quite the contrary, he wanted to travel and see the world. One day, he even thought he'd like to join the circus of his future wife, the daughter of an elephant tamer. But the world that passed him by was that of his father's kiosk next to a convention center, where he had no choice but to work.

The playwright José Sanchis Sinisterra (Valencia, 1940) arrives at the Atrium Hall with his affable demeanor and soft voice, which he combines with principles and projects of a stone cut stone. About to turn 85, this giant of playwriting—a renovator of the theater, founder of the Beckett Room, defender of the literary dimension of dramaturgy, influential pedagogue and putative father of the contemporary Catalan scene— premieres a new show at the Atrium Hall, the monologue The creature of dr. Frankenstein, from May 20 to June 1, with Ferran Audi as the performer. Furthermore, the author has several titles in the process of being written or pending release, and is engaged in a long-running battle to open the Teatro del Común, a space for training, research, creation, production, and theatrical exhibition in Madrid—where he has lived for almost 30 years, after 25 in Barcelona—once the project for the Teatro del Común failed. New Border Theater, a kind of Beckett II placed in a Lavapiés corset shop. "I have moments when I think we'll do it anyway, and others when I don't. With the minister, there are lots of smiles, but nothing." He hasn't even tried with the People's Party.