Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott free version and direction Lucia Del Greco

##general.period##:: 23/10 — 30/11/25
##general.room##:: Gràcia

Playbill Easy-to-read (in Catalan)

Timetable

Wednesday to Friday at 19.00 p.m.
Saturday at 17.00 h and 20.00 p.m.
Sunday at 18.00 p.m.

Running time

1 h 15' approx.

Place

Gràcia

Language

In Catalan, English and French

Price

€14 - €32

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone
07/11 audio-description and over-titles adapted

PREVIEW
22/10 tickets here

Debate

06/11 moderated byr Andrea Gumes

IN SITU
28/10 Freedom and resignation:
Little Women's unfinished revolution
with Marta Orriols

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by the Educational Programme
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Description

Who doesn’t know, in detail, this timeless melodrama by Louisa May Alcott that’s repeatedly been adapted to the cinema? Little Women is an indisputable universal literature classic and director Lucia Del Greco signs a contemporary, transgressive and radically free version that she launches like a missile to today’s audiences breaking the molds.

After directing Pura passió and Mata'm psicosi, Del Greco goes into the dark side of this story of feminist rebellion in full Victorian era imagining the B-side of the characters and the story.
What can a 19th-century woman afford if she goes not married with either God or a man? What would the four sisters be if they were not willing to do anything to become the best version of themselves?
In a kind of peepshow, confessional or imaginary court, these four sisters constantly exposed to each other’s gaze embody the fantasies of all those who prefer to see them locked in their precious golden cages. Perhaps they are there to be watched, like a dolls in a window, and to offer men the lies that they need to hear in order to move forward. Or maybe they only exist in the dream of someone who imagines them perfect and submissive, always educated to please. But if so... What power is left to the women in his dream?

Complementary info

More than 100 years from novel to screen
Little Women, Alexander Butler (1917)
Little Women, Alexander Cukor (1933)
Fu Lan jie jie, Kangshi Mo (1955)
Piccole donne, Lea Padovani (1955)
Dai lu nian hua, Kim Chun (1967)
Mujercitas, José Díaz Morales (1973)
Little Women, Yûgo Serikawa (1980)
Quattro piccole donne, Gianfranco Albano (1989)
Wakakusa monogatari nan to Jô sensei, several directors (1993)
Little Women, Gillian Amstrong (1994)
Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Kanketsu Ban: Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari, Fumio Kurokawa (2001)
Little Women, Vanessa Caswill, (2017)
Little Women, Clare Niederpruem (2018)
Little Women, Greta Gerwig (2019)
Wakakusa Monogatari - Koisuru Shimai to Koisenu Watashi, Ryûichi Inomata and Hajime Senoo (2024)

Environment, censorship and prevalence
The Orchard House
Louisa's Legacy: Little Women and Orchard House, Jan Turnquist (2020)
Detrás de 'Mujercitas': la infancia de Louisa May Alcott en una comuna vegetariana, Carmen MAcías (2021)
‘Mujercitas’, 150 años de una novela activista que ha inspirado a millones de lectoras, Winston Manrique Sabogal (2018)
Barbara Sicherman: The Persistence of Little Women, or Still Timely after All These Years (2012)
The Struggle of Victorian Women in Novel “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott, Cinda Amilia Rahman (2018)
«Mujercitas», sin censuras ni párrafos suprimidos, Toni Montesinos (2023)

Gender questions
Les années bienheureuses du châtiment, Fleur Jaeggy (1992-2005)
Gender Stereotyping in 'Little Women': “Let Us Be Elegant or Die!”, Clare Bender (2017)
Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel, Sarah Blackwood (2025)
Dismantling gender roles, Shardai Smith (2021)
“‘Las mujercitas” del franquismo” (1936-1960), Matilde Peinado Rodríguez (2016)
La Sección Femenina: el modelo abnegado de feminidad, Nerea Balinot (2019)
El cuerpo erótico de la actriz bajo los fascismos, Núria Bou and Xavier Pérez (2018)
El deseo femenino en el cine español (1939-1975), Núria Bou and Xavier Pérez (2022)
Deesses i tombes. Mites femenins en el cinema de Hollywood, Núria Bou (Proa, 2004)
Feminist Film Theory: An Introductory Reading List, Gabrielle Stecher (2023)

Role and networks
El fenomen 'tradwives', Núria Bigas Formatjé (2024)
L’ensorrament de l’espai privat, Alice Cappelle (2025)
GIRLS, On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between, MoMu Antwerp (2025/26)

Schedule

CAST

Elisabet Casanovas Jo

Joan Esteve Laurie

Mia Esteve Mrs. March

Paula Jornet Amy

Miriam Moukhles Meg

Blanca Valletbó Beth

SETTING AND LIGHTING

Cube.bz

COSTUMES AND DEPICTION

Pau Aulí Nadal

SOUND

Roc Mateu

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Pol Batlle

MOVEMENT

Lorena Nogal and Ariadna Monfort

DIRECTOR ASSISTANT

Mònica Almirall

COSTUMES ASSISTANT

Davinia Wang

PLAYRIGHT ADVISOR

Enric Nolla Gual

SOUND SPACE COLLABORATION

Alejandro Da Rocha

SOUND ASSISTANT

Jordi Agut

TRAINEE DIRECTOR ASSISTANT

Juli Aymí (Eòlia)

TRAINEE COSTUMES ASSISTANT

Marcel Puigví (ITB)

WIGS MADE BY

Rodrigo Ferbar

COSTUMES MADE WITH THE COLLABORATION OF

Época Barcelona

AND THE TEAMS OF

Teatre Lliure

THANKS TO

Pere Jou, Nao Albet, Marta Bessa, Nico Cobo, Dolors Miquel, Albert Roig, Leonardo Vicente, Miquel Mas Fiol, Cora + Gianfranco, Ilaria Del Greco, Ettore Del Greco, Paola Minnucci, Alba Bosch Duran, Marta Vilageliu, Susanna Van Roessel, Remi Fa, Cristina Plazas, Julieta Fernández, Alba Viader and Mariona Om