Joel Joan (Barcelona, 1970) leaves behind some very professionally intense days: he started the week presenting Bons i dolents, the new show that will be performed starting next Tuesday at the Teatre Condal. And he has finished it this Friday promoting Escape room 2, the film that adapts the theatrical phenomenon created jointly with Héctor Claramunt, and which will be released in theaters on October 9th. "My life is pretty much my work. I have no hobbies, I don't have a sailboat, I only ski when I can," explains the actor, director, and playwright. Bons i dolents is the first show he has written all by himself.

Joel Juan was crying. He was crying as he said hello. Tears brought on, we don't know, by Sonia's final monologue about boundless resilience and faith in the afterlife, or by the emotional release he felt after an hour and a half journey with the eight characters of Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.

After eight years of sharing laughs with the two of them Escape room and The great comedianJoel Joan (Barcelona, ​​1970) takes a 180-degree turn in his theatrical career and faces not only a dramatic role, not only a 19th-century Russian classic, but a major theatrical challenge: to play all the characters himself in Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. From February 24 to March 22, the Argentinian Nelson Valente directs this updated and concentrated version of that rural drama, a work by Simon Stephens, at the Teatro Romea (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) which starred Andrew Scott at the National Theatre in London (the hot priest from the series Fleabag) and earned him critical acclaim and awards.