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Hilariously unhinged

Jordi Cabré
"Excessive" is hardly a pejorative adjective when excess and hyperbole are precisely what one is aiming for. Joel Joan, as we well know, is that hyperactive, electrically charged lightning rod of a personality (or character) – betrayed by passion, an unrepentant Peter Pan, and a confessed narcissist – who recurs...
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The ancient, inhospitable, and redemptive island of theatre

Elia Tabuenca
You know those moments when you are so thoroughly fed up with society, daily hassles, other people, and yourself that you just want to escape to a desert island? That is the visceral, deeply human, and universal premise of Bouvetøya, a play penned by Ivan Benet, Cristina Genebat, Julio Manrique, and...
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The Lorca-esque shadows of Josep Maria Miró in El cadell

Elia Tabuenca
Josep Maria Miró presents El cadell, a play set inside an ancestral manor house where successive generations of the same family appear before our eyes. And I say "appear" because that is precisely how it unfolds: like spectral visitations, ghosts of the past returning to address our present. Mercè Aránega, Lurdes...