Activities

New edition of post-show colloquia moderated by the journalists Anna Guitart, Andrea Gumes and Queco Novell. This season we are offering:

— 25/09 El Mestre i Margarita with Queco Novell - NEW DATE!
— 06/11 Little Women with Andrea Gumes
— 28/11 El día del Watusi with Queco Novell
— 18/12 AI! La misèria ens farà feliços with Anna Guitart
— 19/02 El barquer with Queco Novell
— 26/02 Una festa a Roma with Anna Guitart
— 12/03 Dones valentes with Andrea Gumes
— 09/04 Mil tres, say cheese with Anna Guitart
— 16/04 Els estunmen with Andrea Gumes
— 14/05 El fill with Queco Novell
— 21/05 L’autora with Andrea Gumes
— 22/05 Contra Antígona with Anna Guitart

Llum de guàrdia

The Llum de guàrdia collection of theatre texts, which we launched last season in a co-publication venture with Comanegra, is continuing. In addition to enjoying the titles that have already been published (L’herència, Prosopopeya, Fantàstic Ramon, Cor dels amants and La brama del cérvol), we are adding six new ones to the collection, in paper and ebook.

Happy reading!

PRICES
paper book - from €12,5 to €18
ebook - from €7,99 to €9,99

FOR SALE
in the bookshops
online
at the theatre box office (limited copies)

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Club Lliure

We are launching the Club Lliure Biblioteques Públiques de Catalunya, a book club via mobile phone on the Tellfy communication platform of Library Service. We talk about the books we are publishing and others related to our shows. We hold periodic digital gatherings, and you can come to some of our rehearsals. And we have a calendar of the theatre activities in the city and further afield!

By the moment, we have discussed about Master and Margarita; we are now reading Little Women and, next, we'll start El día del Watusi.

During the season, it will be also with Biblioteques de Barcelona several reading clubs about some plays in the programme. Moderated by actor and cultural communicator Nil Martín.

• El día del Watusi Entries at Biblioteca El Carmel-Juan Marsé
• AI! La misèria ens farà feliços Entries at Biblioteca Canyelles - M. Àngels Rivas
• El barquer TBD
• L'autora TBD

More books, more theatre, more connection.

We invite you to come onstage and delve into the play in the company of experts on the underlying themes of some of this season’s shows.

PRICE
€6 / Subscribers and Generació Lliure €3.
Booking required

• Irish peace at the end of silences

  09/02 at 19:00 p.m. — on 'El barquer' stage - In the Stormont Castle peace talks, Belfast, 1997-98, the dialogue was fruitful starting from a methodological protocol that made it easier to break the ancestral silences and, with them, the chronic hatreds. The top representatives of the two-armed groups killing each other on the streets of Ulster, Ian Paisley (Ulster Resistance-Democratic Unionist Party) and Martin McGuinness (IRA-Sinn Féin), they ended up becoming friends and sharing the highest ranks of the first governments of national concentration, prime minister and deputy prime minister. I was a special envoy of La Vanguardia at the time of the 'troubles' and followed on-site Stormont’s talks with sources from all sides, unionists, republicans and representatives of the English government. Besides, of course, interesting political and journalistic balances, I have even preserved in an emotional way personal enriching episodes from the end of that war. That also had an impact on the resolution of the Basque conflict, which has been one of the axes of my journalism.

  with Antoni Batista

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• Resistance, combat, survival and courage

  03/03 at 19:00 p.m. — on 'Dones valentes' stage

  with Txell Feixas Torres

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• Love, senility, dementia and mutual care

  17/03 at 19:00 p.m. — on 'Una festa a Roma' stage

  with la Fundació Pasqual Maragall

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• Masculinity, special effects, film myths and heroes

  28/04 at 19:00 p.m. — on 'Els estunmen' stage - NEW DATE!

  with María Adell and Lluís Rivera (In Extremis)

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• Dissidence, activism and 'status quo'.

  26/05 at 19:00 p.m. — on 'Contra Antígona' stage

  with Ada Colau

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• Patriarchy, creation and ecofeminism

  NEW DATE! 02/06 at 19:00 p.m. — on 'L'autora' stage

  with Eva Piquer

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Sessions held

• Dear artists, don't think!

  22/09 at 18:00 p.m. — What is an artist without creative freedom? The same as a journalist who is forbidden to tell the truth. And in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and today's Russia, centuries of censorship with red lines drawn in all directions continue to this day. In Moscow today, Mikhail Bulgakov is an institution. And he had a hard time. The Master and Margarita is a torrent of imagination, but at the same time it allows for a series of interpretations of Stalin's regime that the powers that be at the time would not have tolerated. It is a cult work that he did not publish during his lifetime. Creating, thinking and analysing has always been a high-risk exercise in those lands. It hurts to think how much talent has been lost because of intense and widespread repression. That is why we suggest you join the devilish entourage of The Master and Margarita to enter the Moscow of Bulgakov's time and take a look at how artists, intellectuals and Russian society in general have suffered and tried to avoid censorship throughout their history.

  with Manel Alías

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• Freedom and renunciation: the unfinished revolution of 'Little Women'

  28/10 at 19:00 p.m. — Written from the tension between Louisa May Alcott's life and ideals, 'Little Women', a seemingly innocent and traditional novel, hides a revolution by vindicating female autonomy and sowing the seeds of sisterhood. Each era has interpreted it differently: from a manual of virtue to a feminist icon. Despite reading it in the 21st century, with all the nuances that this entails, it seems that little women and women still cannot shake off the feeling of being trapped in family and social structures, and institutional policies that often reinforce the traditional roles that the March sisters already embodied in 1868.

  with Marta Orriols

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La plaça is back in conjunction with CaixaForum+. It is a gathering place for in-depth conversations with some of the creators who are at the Lliure this season. There will be five chapters in a revamped format that seeks unique places away from the noise and hustle-and-bustle to encourage a calm, rich, open dialogue that enables us to examine the artists’ creative universes and their personal perspectives on the world and this time we are sharing.

You can access the new chapters of La plaça via the free CaixaForum+ platform.

• El Mestre i Margarita

  Àlex Rigola talk to Milena Busquets

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Pallassos a la plaça

Yet another year we are partnering with the NGO Clowns Without Borders in its mission to make the most disadvantaged people laugh. Throughout the season, you can attend two free clown shows in Plaça Margarida Xirgu.

Mark the dates now!

08/11 and 09/05
Plaça Margarida Xirgu
At 12.00
Free

Viu Montjuïc / UNLOCK THE CITY!

We are celebrating the fifth edition of Viu Montjuïc, the weekend full of cultural activities and nature organised by Barcelona City Hall in conjunction with UNLOCK THE CITY!, the Creative Europe project that concludes this autumn.

On Sunday 05 October, the artist Alexandra Laudo , with the collaboration of also creator Anna Puigjaner, will commission the action Apagada, a poetic and political claim on the darkness inspired by the blackouts by artist Tres, on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of his death. This action will close a festive day that will take place at the Teatre Lliure in the framework of Viu Montjuïc,.

The celebration is structured in two parts. The first, Massa Mare Fronteres, comes from the Fundació Mescladís and the community action entities of the Poble-sec neighborhood, and is a festive show in Plaça Margarida Xirgu that will end inside the theater. And the second, Apagada, is an action inspired by the blackouts of the artist Tres, who was specialized in research on silence. A poetic and political act of symbolic vindication of darkness, silence and night. It will be a short but intense action of resistance to the culture of hyperproduction and continuous operability, which will take place in the foyer of the theatre.

05/10 - NEW DATE!
In Montjuïc
Free

Barcelona Dibuixa with Oriol Bellvitge

Yet another year we are partnering with Barcelona Dibuixa, the drawing festival led by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona that is holding its fifteenth edition this year. The festival aims to promote drawing not only as a technique of creation and artistic expression but also as a tool of learning, play and communication, as well as an intellectual process.

This time, the workshop at the Lliure will be led by Oriol Bellvitge, a designer and stage creator who will connect drawing with the theatre arts with the proposal Dues cares del ser. In the most iconic scene of Hamlet, the prince holds a skull and wonders: "To be or not to be, this is the question." The activity starts from this existential dilemma and transforms it into a visual experience. Like Hamlet, we face symbolically the duality of existence: life and death, what is seen and what is hidden.

18/10
Montjuïc. Hivernacle
From 16.00 to 20.00 p.m.
Free

The bar at the Gràcia venue is hosting two activities which share their connection with the city’s social stakeholders in the fields of inclusion and education. Both shows are free of charge during the bar’s timetable.

Mescladís, 20 anys creant oportunitats

Mescladís is celebrating twenty years with a retrospective that pays homage to the community that fuels its mission of inclusion and sustainability. The exhibition showcases the stories, challenges and key milestones that consolidate the social impact of the Fundació Mescladís year after year. It is a benchmark project in the right to migrate with dignity in which food and culture converge to serve as a bridge towards more egalitarian universes.

Fabià Puigserver amb mirada d'infant

This is a group show of the artistic materials created by students from kindergarten to sixth grade at Barcelona’s La Sedeta School. They have resulted from their examination of the figure of Fabià Puigserver—a set and costume designer, stage director and founder of the Teatre Lliure—as part of the Escoles Tàndem project promoted by the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera. It is a visual survey of Puigserver’s life and the start of the Teatre Lliure reinterpreted from an unblemished, playful and creative perspective

Guided tours

Would you like to learn about the history of the Lliure and the Montjuïc building? These guided tours will take you around the most secret spots in what used to be the Palace of Agriculture of the 1929 Barcelona International Expo, a building officially inaugurated by King Alphonse XIII, and later the Barcelona Flower Market from 1962 to 1984. You’ll enter the dressing rooms and the Mirror Hall (Do you know where it got that name?); you’ll walk around backstage and step onto the stage; you’ll head down into the pit to find out what stands with spiralift are like; and you’ll then climb to the top, perched above everything in the Sala Fabià Puigserver.

DATES
Saturdays 13/12 (only at 10.30 a.m.), 10/01, 07/02, 07/03, 07/03, 18/04 and 23/05
If you want to come in a group, you can arrange a tailor-made visit.

LANGUAGE
In Catalan

TIMETABLES
At 10.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m.

PRICE
Reservation €2 / Free for subscribers and Generació Lliure

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MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT
ocampillo@teatrelliure.com

Virtual tour

In this interactive space you can enter the main parts of the Teatre Lliure facilities in both Montjuïc and Gràcia. The virtual tour contains all the same written and audio information as an in-person guided tour. Discover the spaces and the history of the Lliure from your home!