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.