The Sala Atrium has presented its first titles for the 2026-2027 season with a declaration of intent: to consolidate itself as one of the leading beacons of local theater in Barcelona. And, to do so, it will feature a program that recovers universal dramaturgy, historical memory, and the dialogue between generations.
For this new season, the Eixample theater opts for productions interpreted by prominent names in the Catalan scene such as Lluís Soler, Àurea Márquez, Albert Prat, Ivan Benet, Berta Giraut, or Anna Güell.
Bartleby by Herman Melville
From September 15 to 27, 2026
The season begins at Sala Atrium with the adaptation of one of the most enigmatic and universal texts of modern literature: Bartleby by Herman Melville. With dramaturgy and direction by Llàtzer Garcia, the piece takes the form of a monologue performed by actor Albert Prat.
The plot places us in the quiet and orderly routine of a Wall Street lawyer, which begins to crumble when he hires a new scrivener who refuses to perform any task with an already iconic phrase: "I would prefer not to."
Beyond Bartleby's own rebellion, the proposal focuses on the lawyer's moral dilemma, who is torn between incomprehension, frustration, and compassion for an employee who defies all the rules of the productive system.
Impossible by Erri De Luca
From October 6 to 31, 2026
Ramon Simó directs the theatrical adaptation of Erri De Luca's novel, a proposal that features a luxury cast made up of Lluís Soler, Bernat Quintana, and Eduard Tudela. The play is presented as a judicial investigation that focuses on the interrogation of a man accused of the death of a former political militant colleague. What could be a fortuitous accident transforms into a trial of the past.
A piece that shows the cracks that the 21st century has inherited from the past, such as the distance between legality and justice or the difference between real and procedural truth. Erri De Luca wrote a story full of reflections on loyalty, the fall of ideals, and nature as the last refuge of humanism, and now we can enjoy it at Sala Atrium.
Grandpa, I'll Get You Out of Here by Víctor Borràs Gasch
From November 4 to 29, 2026
The company Teatre Nu will return this autumn to the Atrium with this play that triumphed in the season we leave behind. It is a piece based on the eponymous book by journalist Joan Pinyol, with dramaturgy and direction by Víctor Borràs Gasch and performances by Àurea Márquez and Miquel Malirach.
The show starts from a real event about the recent history of our country: the body of Joan Colom (the author's grandfather, who died in 1939 in a Lleida prison due to typhus) had been secretly transferred without the family's consent to the Valle de los Caídos during the Franco dictatorship.
From this starting point, the play reconstructs the personal and collective search that goes from the intimacy of a family to the memory of an entire country. Àurea Márquez and Miquel Malirach give voice to a story about the need for reparation, the dignity of the vanquished and the struggle to give name, place and rest to those whom history tried to erase.
Pastorets by Josep Pedrals and Projecte Ingenu
From December 3, 2026 to January 3, 2027
Josep Pedrals and the company Projecte Ingenu, under the stage direction of Marc Chornet Artells, sign this reinterpretation of the Christmas classic. Pastorets will feature a young cast made up of Anna Pérez Moya, Mireia Sala, Toni Guillemat and Xavier Torra, to ask us a provocative question: what if this time the story of the birth and the struggle between good and evil were told directly by Lucifer?
The play overturns centuries-old tradition to investigate whether hell is nothing more than a story written by the victors. Without renouncing the characteristic playfulness, music, verse and humor of Pedrals' prose, these new Pastorets turn the demons into the protagonists of the show.
Sala 6 by Sergi Pompermayer
From February 10 to 28, 2027
Inspired by Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov, this monologue adapted by Sergi Pompermayer is directed by Xavier Ricart and performed by Ivan Benet. The plot introduces us to the life of Dr. Andrei Yefimitch Ragin, director of a deplorable Russian provincial hospital. But his routine will take a turn when he begins to have conversations with Gromov, a paranoid psychiatric patient but with an overwhelming lucidity about pain and freedom.
The discussions between the two end up causing suspicion among the hospital staff and the local society itself, to the point that the doctor himself is considered mentally ill and admitted to the same ward he previously directed. Ivan Benet embodies this descent into hell where the doctor suffers the violence he previously observed with intellectual distance.
The Last Interview (Roig/Capmany) by Mar Monegal
From May 4 to 30, 2027
This Sala Atrium production, written by Mar Monegal and directed by Raimon Molins, returns this autumn after its great success at the Grec Festival 2026. The proposal brings together two of the most influential intellectual and feminist figures of 20th century Catalonia: Maria Aurèlia Capmany and Montserrat Roig. Interpreted by Berta Giraut, Anna Güell and Lis Montfol, the show takes place on an imaginary television set where the theater audience becomes the program's audience.
The play reviews the great debates of pre-Olympic and pre-tourist Barcelona: from literature and journalism to politics, democratic memory and the feminist struggle. A tribute to two fundamental women for understanding where we come from and how the urban and cultural identity of our city has been built.
Heart by Paco Zarzoso
From June 2 to 20, 2027
Heart is one of the most poetic and sensorial proposals of the season, signed by playwright Paco Zarzoso and directed by Albert Arribas. The show features the work of Antònia Jaume and Àurea Márquez, two reference actresses who will focus on the vulnerability of the flesh, the drowsiness of the senses and the gaze of the other. In this proposal, gesture and silence will have as much weight as the text itself.
This selection of works is only the first letter of introduction of everything that will happen at Sala Atrium during the next academic year. In Eixample, we have an appointment with small and medium-format dramaturgy and stories experienced with maximum proximity.