‘Pongo’an improvisation and humor show created by Judit Martín, Alba Florejachs, Mónica Ballesteros and ‘Australia’the first text by director Israel Solà (La Calòrica) that triumphed at the Flyhard last season and the intimate version of ‘Hedda Gabler’ by Ibsen adapted and directed by Àlex Rigola that sold out places in the Lliure de Gràcia will inaugurate two new theaters in Barcelona in a few weeks.
mounting Rigola will open the Heartbreak Hotel on September 12a small venue in the Sants-Badal area with only 72 seats. ‘Pongo’ will open the Espai Texas on October 13 in a wicked session (10:00 p.m.). AND from the 18th will share the spotlight on the theater billboard with ‘Australia’ (20.00 hours).
If the works are not delayed, the new managers of the Texas hope to have the theater room finished for La Mercè festivities. The historic Gràcia cinema is reborn as a cinema and theater space with a room for 200 spectators with a central stage and an audience on two sides, two cinemas that will be the first to open from next month and a bar.
He Heartbreak Hotel, led by Rigola and Irene Vicentehas presented a season with five own productions but wants to accommodate other proposals. Rigola is committed to a type of theater in its purest form, devoid of artifice, where the actor and the text can be appreciated in a very intimate way. ‘Hedda Gabbler’ has great actors such as Nausicaa Bonnín, who plays the tormented leading lady who gives the play its title, Miranda Gas, Pol López, Marc Rodríguez and Joan Solé. The room’s programming includes four other titles in its first season, two of them by contemporary authors such as Aki Shimazaki y Aina Tur, ‘Full moon’ y ‘Six hectares of olive trees’respectively. ‘The Theater Man’of Bernharda new production by Rigola, the revival of ‘Who is me. Pasolini (Poet of the ashes)’ complete the programming.
Both rooms have launched different strategies to seduce the public. The Espai Texas de Gràcia offers 20% discounts while the Heartbreak Hotel offers subscriptions for three and five shows.
Creativity is not lacking
Isona Passola, Joan Teixidor, Anna Rosa Cisquella, Flyhard Produccions and the Barc cultural cooperative hope to refloat the old Texas cinema on the one hand and offer a theatrical space that gives an outlet to works that have worked in nearby theaters in an intermediate theater since the going to a theater with a large capacity is complicated.
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“We are not lacking in requests. There are many creators who need this type of space,” Anna Rosa Cisquella told EL PERIÓDICO when they presented this project that is about to become a reality. have collected more than 139,000 euros through a crowdfunding campaign and a grant of 15,000 euros from the Barcelona City Council, which demonstrates interest in the project. Public they will have because the 2,030 people who participated in the crowdfunding campaign had gift tickets. And online sales, started three weeks ago, have been encouraged coinciding with the return of many vacations.
‘Pongo’ and ‘Austràlia’ are already noticing it. The first is a crazy tribute to the useless starring two very funny actresses, Alba Florejachs and Judit Martín, who invite viewers to bring some ‘pongo’ from home, those decorative objects of dubious taste or utility, to give rise to all kinds of of stories and anecdotes. The second, with Ester Cort, Meritxell Huertas, Brian Lehane and Carme Poll tells a story centered on three sisters who meet again in Australia after one of them, who cannot have children, has asked them for an egg to conceive. The work reflect on family and love.
2023-08-20 08:07:57
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