After the summer lull, the cultural season begins in the Girona regions with a brand new edition of the Temporada Alta festival, the 35th, which will be held from October 3 to December 8. The theatrical autumn in Girona and Salt will feature 91 shows, 131 performances, 21 co-productions, and 22 premieres, four of which will be firsts world. The opening ceremony will be Has been, on the subject of growing up in the performing arts world. It is a premiere in the State that will bring together for the first time the languages of the choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and of circus and movement artist Martin Zimmermann.

The Flaix de Tardor cocktail of international shows will be served again from October 16 to 29 in five Barcelona venues. It will be the second edition of a mini-festival of seven shows situated at the start of the season, reminiscent of the old Festival de Tardor or the Xavier Regàs Memorial. The cycle serves to provide a concentrated taste of what is happening theatrically abroad, at a time when the Temporada Alta festival is also taking place in Girona-Salt, which does have a core of international companies more stably than in Barcelona. The same Girona producer, Bitó, is the one programming this "explosion of international theater" in Barcelona, says the festival director, Narcís Puig, who has public support from the Barcelona City Council (180,000 euros) and the Generalitat (180,000 euros) and the complicity of the five theaters through which the programming expands. The budget is 435,000 euros. For the Councilor of Culture, Xavier Marcé, the Flaix de Tardor "normalizes a programming of international reference shows" and "uniquely defines the city's cultural offer". Last year, Flaix achieved an occupancy of 89%, with 5,300 spectators.

A generation of Catalan theatergoers has grown up with director Thomas Ostermeier (Soltau, 1968). Àlex Rigola began bringing him to Barcelona when he was running the Teatre Lliure as one of his references for staging radically contemporary classics that, at the same time, maintained the essence of the text. Throughout this time, the Temporada Alta festival has programmed some of its shows and the 34th edition of the festival kicks off this weekend at the Teatre Municipal de Girona with its Hamlet, which was already seen in the Fabià Puigserver hall of the Lliure two nights in December 2008, a few months after the German premiere. The show's run in Barcelona had the curious fact that one of the actors fell ill at the last minute and Ostermeier himself had to play the role of Horacio, with the script in his hand, shirtless, on his knees and wrapped in plastic.