The Great Hall of the National Theatre of Catalonia (TNC) will host, from April 22 to May 31, Oedipus and Antigone with a Catalan company formed mainly by racialized performers. This is a sadly unusual situation that the director of the show, Carlota Subirós, wanted to break. "It's the first time my son has seen this in the thirty years I've been working," says actress Vicenta Ndongo, pointing to the show's poster, with the photograph of Kathy Sey and Babou Cham. "We have a very whitewashed image of classical Greece. We have constructed the fallacy that Europe is white. It wasn't in its origin and it isn't today," Subirós adds.

"With headphones, music, and everything else, it touched me deeply," says a student from IES Terra Roja in Santa Coloma de Gramenet after the performance ofEl sonall, which can be seen until April 26 at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. This immersive show, with live music (some paragraphs from a doctoral thesis are even read to the rhythm of rap), recounts the investigation of a real case: that of Catalina Muñoz. Mother of four, she was 37 years old when the Francoists executed her at the beginning of the Civil War. Some neighbors had accused her of making proclamations in favor of the Republic, and her husband had fled after confronting Falangists. When she was murdered, she was carrying the rattle of her youngest son, Martín, who was nine months old at the time. When archaeologists exhumed her grave, in La Carcavilla Park (Palencia), they found the small toy along with some buttons and the soles of her rubber shoes.

A person with Down syndrome was denied access to the public bus because residents didn't trust their behavior. A couple, also with Down syndrome, faced opposition from their neighbors when moving into an apartment and were forced to use the service elevator instead of the residents' elevator. These are two recent examples of the many challenges people with disabilities face daily—often in silence. For the past eight years, the company of choreographer Vero Cendoya It is made up of performers with and without disabilities. "It's not a social project. I look for the people who work best for what I want to express," says the artist. Until now, he had never directly addressed disability and inclusion on stage, but the book A brilliant imperfection Eli Clare's work changed everything.

The musical Soul Tonight it has reached a new milestone in its history of achievementsThe assembly, which opened the season at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya last year and which will return to the Tivoli in February, has become the big winner of the Butaca awards, the popular vote awards that each year recognize the best performing arts proposals in Catalonia chosen by the public. Soul It has won seven awards: Best Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, and Best Costume Design for Oriol Burés; Best Lighting Design for Sylvia Kuchinow; Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Natalia Albert; Best Sound for Carla Casanovas and Roc Mateu; and Best Musical Composition for Adrià Barbosa and Abel Garriga. The 31st Butaca Awards ceremony took place this Monday evening at the Premià de Mar sports pavilion.

Xavier Albertí returns to the National Theatre three years laterMen and Days And he does so through the main entrance of the Sala Gran. The former director of the Teatre Nacional is leading the most ambitious Catalan theatrical repertoire initiative of the year. The crown of thornsAnd it's not just because of the large format, the eleven actors, and the tour through Catalonia and Mallorca, but because it aspires to place Josep Maria de Sagarra (1894-1961) in the place it believes he deserves.

In the lobby of the Sala Talleres at the National Theatre of Catalonia (TNC), a shower of folded papers fills a glass urn. At the top, a message asks the audience to write "a small moment of happiness" that can be read aloud. Teenagers from the Sunsi Móra Institute in Canet de Mar crowd around the table, pens at the ready and the infectious laughter of their age. "I have two. What did you write?" one of them asks. "I won't tell you, but it's obvious, girl. Write both!" the other replies. The students, perhaps more shy or perhaps less enthusiastic, watch them from afar, but every now and then one of them approaches the table and carries out the assigned task. They all make up the audience that attended a school performance this Thursday of TarsivusA show by Lara Díez Quintanilla, directed by Ferran Carvajal, that tackles youth suicide head-on and without subterfuge.

After inaugurating the Teatros del Farró with some short texts that accompany Freshwater by Virginia Woolf and after opening the season at the Atrium Hall with the excellent I count every step I take on earth., the National Theatre of Catalonia opens its Sala Tallers with the third show by Lluïsa Cunillé, one of the most prestigious and performed authors in Catalan theater. Lurdes Barba directs, from October 9 to November 9. Fog, a show set 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in a former Soviet republic where dreams of progress and freedom have been buried.

Roseta Mauri's is one of those epic biographies that has been left out of official history, probably because she was a woman and a dancer. But the passage of time only serves to magnify the exceptionality of this important figure in Catalan artistic heritage. Roseta Mauri was a poor girl from Reus "who ate pigeons for dinner" and who would end up becoming, with her talent and years of sacrifice, a unique case: the prima ballerina of the Paris Opera, an influential figure in the Parisian cultural scene at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and the subject of paintings by the great Impressionist painters, especially Of Impressionist Painters. The Teatre Nacional wants to contribute to her definitive popularization with a multidisciplinary show, The daughter of the air, which opens at the Sala Tallers from October 2 to 19, directed by Raimon Molins.

What has happened with Soul It's one of those stories that are so epic they almost seem impossible. It's the story of a group of friends who have known each other since they were 16 years old thanks to musical theater and who dreamed of putting on a Broadway-style show of their own creation, in Catalan, and in the Sala Gran of the Teatro Nacional. It took them more than 25 years, but they succeeded: they opened last season at the TNC with a production featuring 10 musicians and 18 performers that received praise from all quarters.

He good moment for Catalan theatre This is also reflected in the season that the National Theatre of Catalonia (TNC) is about to close. While we await the final figures, this year the public theatre has achieved 87% occupancy (of which 25% is audiences under 35 years old) and 134,000 spectators. 2,000 more than the previous season"We are fighting to have one of the best theaters in Europe. The numbers are in our favor," said TNC director Carme Portaceli on Tuesday, taking the opportunity to recall some of the season's successes, such as The spider, by Jordi Prat i Coll, and The third escape, by Victoria Szpunberg.