ASSES.MASSES, by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim (game performance)
Nov 1 & 2 | 12 p.m. |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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asses.masses could be described as a meeting point between Animal Farm, Pokémon, and Final Fantasy. It is a collaborative, irreverent, and political video game designed to be played from start to finish by a live audience. Over the course of more than seven hours, it unfolds an epic narrative… Continua llegint
PROJECTE PREGUNTA, by Pedro Sepúlveda (Interactive installations). Project developed from and in collaboration with Teatre Artesà
Nov 3, 5, 8 and 21 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
Mercat de les CortsParc de la Colònia CastellsPlaça Comas |
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ICC – La Caldera 30 Years + Festival IF Barcelona (hand in hand with Teatre Artesà), present Projecte Pregunta by Pedro Sepúlveda: a citizen participation project focused on the collective generation, visualization, and viralization of debates in public space, taking place in Les Corts. The project unfolds throughout the… Continua llegint
DARK TIMES, by David Espinosa (premiere)
Nov 6 – 9 & Nov 13 – 16 | 7:30 p.m. (1 p.m. Sunday) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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This piece is the stage derivation of the research project The Amazing Shadow Man, a study on the concept of shadow, both from a formal and content perspective. David Espinosa’s intention is to deepen the creation of meaning through the relationships between object, light, space, time, and sound,… Continua llegint
MELODAMA. “The Revenge of a Russian Orphan”, by Eugenio Navarro, Martí Doy and Jordi Prat i Coll
Nov 6-9 | 6 p.m. (12 p.m. on Sunday) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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Melodama tells the story of Sophie, an orphaned young woman who lives with her aunt and has yet to experience love. When she believes she has finally found it, she falls into the trap of infatuation and allows herself to be seduced by someone rather unsuitable. Ignoring her aunt’s… Continua llegint
I WANT TO LOOK INTO THE CRATER OF A VOLCANO WHEN IT’S ABOUT TO ERUPT, by Javiera Gazitua (work in progress)
Nov 13 | 7 p.m. |
L'Estruch - Fàbrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu (Sabadell) |
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An installation-based space where the narrative flows around the audience, exploring the relationship between natural processes and human emotions. A proposal built around concepts such as latency, landscape, volcano, image, light, shadow, and unfinished desire. Javiera Gazitua Charnes: director and dramaturg trained at the Institut del Teatre. She creates… Continua llegint
FREE HANDS, by Toni Rumbau
Nov 15 | 6:30 p.m. |
Teatre Josep Maria de Sagarra |
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With A Mans Lliures, Toni Rumbau concludes his Hands Trilogy, begun with A Dues Mans (1987) and continued with A Mans Plenes (2009). This is a solo performance of shadows and puppets, born from dialogue with the previous works, revisiting and reformulating them to close the cycle with a… Continua llegint
TRIA FATA, by Cia. La Pendue
15 Nov | 8 p.m. |
Teatre Josep Maria de Sagarra |
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She is a puppeteer, he is a musician, and in their cabaret, life and death are at stake. With the poetics of burlesque and cabaret, La Pendue confronts the audience with death through a dramaturgy structured like a Russian doll: within the life of the old lady beats the… Continua llegint
LABOR, by Pepe Seguí (premiere)
Nov 15 (7 p.m.) | Nov 16 (7:30 p.m.) |
Antic Teatre (Barcelona) |
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Based on the ideas expressed by William Morris in his lectures, and through the manipulation of objects, small automatons, and period audiovisuals, the audience is invited to reflect on how modern labor and consumer structures have been tied to forms of slavery, where individual freedom, creativity, and the sense… Continua llegint
INTERIOR NOCHE, by Serrucho
Nov 15 (8 p.m.) | Nov 16 (6 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.) |
Antic Teatre (Barcelona) |
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Interior Noche is a nocturnal camping scene: a temporary laboratory with folding chairs, parasols, and tents. With a head-mounted spotlight, the audience discovers a collage of objects and memories. The beams of light projected from their heads become their own gazes, revealing temporalities and individual choices that shape the… Continua llegint
C.U.L., by Escarlata Circus
Nov 16 | Espai B La Seca | 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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When objects decide to write the piece and reveal themselves, stepping out of their comfort zone to play at being others, they show us the latency they carry within. The story fills with waiting, transition, and transformation—a three-dimensionality that art also demands. Perhaps we are not aware, but humans… Continua llegint
THAUMA, by Cia. La Mula
Nov 15 | 8 p.m. |
Teatre L'Artesà (El Prat de Llobregat) |
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She is a puppeteer, he is a musician, and in their cabaret, life and death are at stake. With the poetics of burlesque and cabaret, La Pendue confronts the audience with death through a dramaturgy structured like a Russian doll: within the life of the old lady beats the… Continua llegint
PROJECTE PREGUNTA, by Pedro Sepúlveda (Opening)
Nov 21 | 1 p.m. |
La Caldera (Barcelona) |
Free |
After the three durational activations, taking place on Nov 3, 5 and 8 (from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) in Les Cortsneighbourhood (Plaça Comas, Parc de la Colònia Castells and Mercat de les Corts), a final opening will be held with all the people involved in the process (artists,… Continua llegint
MUDANZAS PORTAS, by Lluki Portas and Joan Tomàs Martínez
Nov 22 & 23 | 6 p.m. | 8 p.m. | 9:45 p.m. |
Antic Teatre (Barcelona) |
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In the 1940s, Mariano Portas Martí founded the moving company Mudanzas Portas, which quickly became a reference in the sector in Mallorca. Today, in a 3,000 m² warehouse, boxes, books, and abandoned objects are stored. This artistic project revisits that legacy through archives, dust, and memory, combining the recontextualization… Continua llegint
COSES QUE CAUEN DEL CEL, by Dora Cantero
Nov 22& 23 | 8 p.m. |
Antic Teatre (Barcelona) |
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Winner of the 2nd IF Barcelona – Fira Mediterrània de Manresa Creation Call. In 1858, a meteorite fell in Molina de Segura (Murcia), the hometown of Dora Cantero. According to legend, this celestial body carried “radio-writing,” a radiation capable of awakening an irresistible attraction to literature. Starting from this… Continua llegint
ЛEШИЙ / LESHI, by Atresbandes (premiere)
Nov 26 – 30 | 7:30 p.m. (12 p.m. on Sunday) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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A four-act theatre piece based on the reading of a work by Anton Chekhov. The play is titled Леший. It was written, performed, and… failed. From the Latin quassare, to break. The play broke. The broken play was rejected by its own author, who decreed: “Let it never be… Continua llegint
EL PLANETA PERDIDO, by Cia. La Bayka
Nov 28 | 8 p.m. |
Espai La Bayka (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) |
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El Planeta Perdido tells the story of a fantastic world, a beautiful place that coexists with chaos, life, and destruction: a fragile being in a constantly precarious balance. The story unfolds through the hands of the resilient, an old puppeteer who survives among the remnants of that lost paradise.… Continua llegint
BLUE, by Juan Domínguez
Nov 29 | 8 p.m. |
La Caldera (Barcelona) |
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In Blue, Juan Domínguez dismantles theatrical conventions to propose a sensory and open experience, where there is no narrative to follow and no predetermined meanings. The stage becomes a space of suspension and possibility, inhabited by bodies that do not tell stories but embody them. Here, understanding is unnecessary:… Continua llegint
FUEGO, CAMINA CONMIGO, by Cia La Soledad (premiere)
Nov 30 | 1 p.m. |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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The second piece of the Tetralogy of the Elements: after water comes fire. On this occasion, Cia. La Soledad recreates a temazcal on stage—an ancestral ceremony in which flames can embrace us without burning us. As Byung-Chul Han points out, rituals make the universe a more habitable and trustworthy… Continua llegint
INSTRUCCIONS PER DESAPARÈIXER LENTAMENT, by Marga Socias and Nico Roig
Nov 30 | 2 p.m. |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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A magical object appears. We do not know if it comes from the past or the future. It is said to hold the first memory of the beginning of time and the last image before collapse. This scenic and sound action unfolds as an intuitive ritual, an imperfect invocation,… Continua llegint
MANUAL PER A ÉSSERS VIUS, by Cia. La Mula / Objectes Perduts (Expanded Programming IF Barcelona)
Dec 11–21 | 7:30 p.m. (12 p.m. on Sunday) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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Manual per a éssers vius introduces an innovative language of visual theatre centered on the written text. Words — which shape the way we perceive the world — are the protagonists of the piece. Writing and reading, as human techniques, contain perceptual codes rooted in everyday life. The playfulness with… Continua llegint
JA T’HO VAIG DIR, by Agnès Mateus & Quim Tarrida / Objectes Perduts (Expanded Programming IF Barcelona)
January 2–5 |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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This proposal is part of the creation process for the next stage work by Agnès Mateus and Quim Tarrida, which will premiere at the end of 2026. These four days are a pause along their journey — a space to be lived as an experiment, a work in progress,… Continua llegint
I TRUST YOU, by Vivian Friedrich / Objectes Perduts (Expanded Programming IF Barcelona)
March 19–22 & 26–29 | 7:30 p.m. (noon Sunday) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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How can you trust a body that can break at any moment? How can you trust a mind that can fracture? The piece explores the difficulty of trusting someone who is in constant motion — of seeking support in something unstable. It reflects on the breaking point and on… Continua llegint
SAETA, by Javier Aranda / Objectes Perduts (Expanded Programming IF Barcelona)
Apr 30–May 3 & May 7–10 | 7:30 p.m. (12 p.m. Sunday) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona) |
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A saeta is heard, a crown of white flowers lies on stage, someone appears carrying a coffin, and the voice of a spirit resounds… Everything collapses — nothing is as it seems in this comic tragedy. The game of theatre allows us to become what we are not, to… Continua llegint