Leticia Martín (Granada, 1978) was appointed two years ago new director of the Grec, Barcelona's most important performing arts festival. This year's edition – the 50th – is the first that she has programmed from scratch and allows us to see the artistic line the festival will follow. Martín is working to expand the Grec and make it reach Barcelona residents who are still unaware of it, while also wanting the festival to be a window into the contemporary scene of the present and a support for local creation. Why did you run for director of the Grec?

The 49th edition of the Grec Festival will end on Monday, August 4, with 124,837 spectators and an average 80% occupancy, as announced this Tuesday by the Councilor for Culture of the Barcelona City Council, Xavier Marcé, and the director of the Grec Festival, Leticia Martín, six days before the end of the Montjuïc amphitheater, Hecube, not Hecube, from the Comédie Française.