One of the most special summer nights Pepa Plana remembers is the night before her first show as a clown. “Thirty years have passed and I still remember all the excitement of premiering a first adventure that we didn't know where it would lead us,” she says. That first show, De Pe a Pa, she premiered at the Fira de Tàrrega at the hands of Joan Busquets, a clown and theatre director who died of cancer in 2010 and whom Plana misses terribly. “He was a very good clown, and he was always very generous with me. He took me by the hand and made me walk as a clown. Oh, how I like to bring him down and have him appear in a conversation,” she exclaims. 

The clown from Valles, Pepa Plana, will perform at the Teatro Principal in Valls on Friday, November 14. She will represent At every turn, her latest show. This clown, who claims to live "in the world of yes," has received awards such as the Sant Jordi Cross and the National Culture Prize throughout her career, and, as she reveals in this interview, she has just received a new "gift from the Gods."

Summer is the time of year when everything pretty much comes to a standstill for clown Pepa Plana. She's rarely on tour or rehearsing for a show, although she does participate in some festivals or shows, like the one she'll be performing this August in Galicia. "I never have two summers the same, but neither do I have two winters." She says she's lucky to travel for work, which for her is the best way to do it. She goes wherever she's going, works, learns the truth from the people who invite her, take her to their favorite places, and shares their surroundings. "I have the privilege of getting to know places accompanied by the people who live there. Plus, you don't feel like such a destructive ant as if you were traveling on your own. There's an exchange; I contribute my work."