Institut Ramon LLull

Catalan stage manager Marc Rosich takes to the stage at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin with his new show ‘Ocaña, Queen of the Rambles’. The show is a tribute to the legendary figure of José Pérez Ocaña, a painter and LGBT activist famous for his performances in Barcelona. The show will open on 15th February and run until 3rd March.

This year, the Temporada Alta festival is once again acting as a platform for promotion of Catalan and Balearic drama in Latin America, in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull. In this sixth edition, the artists and companies that have been invited are Guillem Albà and Clara Peya, Animal Religion, Anna Alarcón, Laia Alsina and Xisco Roselló. Their shows can be seen between 1st and 25th February in theatres and arts centres in Buenos Aires, Lima and Montevideo.

13 Catalan associations will be at the 30th edition of the Internationale Kulturbörse Freiburg (Germany) from 21st to 24th January, through the Department of Culture’s Catalan Arts stand 

From 19th to 24th January, FiraTàrrega will be presenting four theatrical proposals at the Chilean festival Santiago OFF. The Institut Ramon Llull has participated in the collaboration agreement that also includes the Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC), from the Catalan Department of Culture.

The Catalan company Ponten Pie will be at the Burghof Theatre in Lörrach, Germany, on 23rd January to perform Loo, a show designed for an audience aged from two to five that is about the power of the wind. 

This year the Incanti Festival in Turin, devoted to object theatre, has programmed the Chapertons and Beslight companies. The Incanti Festival programmes all kinds of theatre which do not come into the catalogue of author or prose drama. This year it is being held from 3 to 9 October.

A play about a man and a woman who meet up in a playground and discuss random topics and issues in order to avoid doing what they are supposed to do: talk about themselves. 

The Gombeens, a theatre company formed by the Catalan Miquel Barceló and the Irishman Jonathan Gunning, present Spraoi in Paris. The show, designed for all audiences, tells the story of a meeting between two boys, one Irish and the other Catalan, who will struggle to bridge the gaps that separate them and be able to have fun together. The work is in Catalan and Irish and will be performed on 27 May at 16.30 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. 

Skin in Flames, the English version of the work by the dramatist Guillem Clua arrives on the London stage for the first time performed by the Bots&Barrals company and the StoneCrabs Theatre. This new production will have its first performance on 15 May at the Park Theatre. It will be on until 6 June.  

The Institut Ramon Llull is taking the Catalan artist’s circus to the city as part of the Hautes Tensions Festival on 4 and 5 April. He will be presenting his show Pelat, a story of the relation between a man and a piece of wood. 

Four Catalan theatre and dance companies have scheduled performances for the Christmas holidays in the provinces of León, Madrid, Segovia and Ciudad Real. The Companyia Roberto G. Alonso will be in Ponferrada; Marcel Gros in Arganda del Rey, Meco and Segovia; Brodas Bros in La Solana and Torrejón de Ardoz; and the Companyia de Pep Bou also in Segovia. All the performances have the support of the Institut Ramon Llull, which is committed to introducing Catalan performers to the international ...

After writing the humorous monologue Non solum, Sergi López and Jorge Picó present 30/40 Livingstone, a work they have created, directed and performed together. It will be given its first performance at the Festival de Temporada Alta and, from 4 to 27 July, it will be on at Avignon à la Catalane. The work shows us a contemporary man, talkative and contradictory, extremely dissatisfied, who decides to leave everything and set off in search of great adventures far away. There ...