El Grec and the art of storytelling
The programme of Grec Festival is very extensive and caters for all tastes, and it is held all over the city. If you don’t know which shows to choose, here are some of them that revive the art of storytelling. There are some based on great narrative works, as well as plays that were originally written to be performed on stage and have become literary classics.
One of the big premieres of the festival will be Tirant Lo Blanc, the well-known text by Joanot Martorell, adapted by Màrius Serra. Directed by Joan Arqué and performed by Quim Àvila, Laura Aubert, Judit Neddermann, Moha Amazian, Neus Ballbé, Clara Mingueza, Ireneu Tranis and Agnès Jabbour, it will be at the Teatre Romea from 25 June to 4 August. At the Teatre Goya, actress Lolita will be starring in Poncia, written and directed by Luis Luque. The interventions of the character from Federico García Lorca’s play are the starting point of this text, a deep analysis of the character that turns her original dialogues into reflections, soliloquies, dialogues with ghosts and shadows. It can be seen from 28 June to 28 July.
And one of the fundamental playwrights of our time, Wajdi Mouawad, returns to Teatre La Biblioteca with a text about fratricidal struggles and the weight of inheritance. La Perla 29, directed by Oriol Broggi, will be performing Tots ocells (Birds of a Kind) from 25 June to 28 July. Guillem Balart, Xavier Boada, Joan Carreras, Màrcia Cisteró, Marissa Josa, Miriam Moukhles, Clara Segura and Xavier Ruano will bring this text to life. And the company La Brutal will stage a modern-day version of one of Molière’s best-known plays, El misantrop (The Misanthrope). Sergi Pompermayer and David Selvas will be performing a free version, with Pol López and Mireia Aixalà, among others. Only on 2 and 3 July at Teatre Grec.
If you like Shakespeare’s classics, you can go and see Hamlet. In the Folds of Time. The Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy transforms Hamlet into a woman and gives him a camera to rework a story that has been told a thousand times before. You can follow this multilingual proposal, with surtitles in Catalan and English, on 24 and 25 July at Teatre Lliure of Montjuïc.
Check out all the programme of the Grec Festival of Barcelona at this link.