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Àngels Gonyalons: “Literature’s greatest lie is the anonymous author”

Elia Tabuenca
To speak with Àngels Gonyalons is to converse with the living history of our stage, but above all with a vibrant, inquisitive artist engaged in an unending pursuit of challenges and learning. In this year's edition of Festival Clàssics and Temporada Alta, the actress gives voice to four short stories...
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Pep Tosar: "Poetry is the instrument that makes the invisible visible"

Elia Tabuenca
“A love for everything torments me,” wrote Miguel Hernández. And it is that love seems to inspire playwrights Pep Tosar and Evelyn Arévalo, who have set out to revive the life and work of the poet widely revered as “the poet of the people”. The Teatre del Raval hosts this new...
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Clara Sanchis: "There are still armies of Shakespeare's sisters"

Elia Tabuenca
A decade ago, Clara Sanchis and María Ruiz had an idea: to bring the voice of Virginia Woolf to the stage. But they wanted to do so as faithfully as possible to the text, embracing its irony, the subtle humour running beneath the words, and the forceful message that shakes...