El Cadell

Written and directed by: Josep Maria Miró

Sala Petita
30/09/26 al 01/11/26

El Cadell

A manor house. He inherits. The women sustain.

A manor house passed down through generations, where the entire burden falls on the heir: the 'Cadell'. In this closed and seemingly unchanging world, the continuity of the legacy and the name appears to depend on a single figure. But, behind this apparent order, the women are the true protagonists, the pillars of the daily life and memory of this family universe.

With El Cadell, Josep Maria Miró ‒ National Prize for Dramatic Literature and one of the most international voices of contemporary Catalan theatre ‒ returns to the TNC after successes such as Fum or Temps salvatge. In this new play, Miró further explores the dynamics of power, inheritance and identity, a combination of local rooting and local universal projection.

El Cadell takes place in a manor house that becomes a true protagonist, governing its inhabitants. The play could be titled L'hereu (The Heir), this person marked from birth by strict codes and rules, more overt or subtle, designed to ensure what is expected of him and prevent any desertion or dissent. In this small world, where everything seems to revolve around the male figure, his continuity, and the accumulated material wealth, it is the women ‒ mothers, sisters, aunts ‒ who are the true pillars of the house.

Perhaps I only became aware of it later, but difference and the construction of masculinity (including its fragilities and dissents) are two very powerful backbones of a part of my theatre. Still situated in the rural world, where I come from and which is also the geography of my latest plays (El Monstre, La Majordoma or El cos més bonic que s'haurà trobat mai en aquest lloc), I now add the question of legacy. Inheritance, in its ambivalence of perpetuation or destruction, is an issue that has always fascinated me and that some of the playwrights I most admire and love, from Santiago Rusiñol to Benet i Jornet, have addressed from their own perspectives.

Josep Maria Miró

Written and directed by

Josep Maria Miró

With

Mercè Aránega, Lurdes Barba, Màrcia Cisteró, Roberto G. Alonso, Àurea Márquez, Alba Pujol, Rosa Renom, Marc Tarrida

Set design

Alejandro Andújar

Costume design

Albert Pascual

Lighting design

Toni Ubach

Music composition

Xavier Albertí

Sound
Carles Bernal

Characterization
Itziar Nzang

Movement
Roberto G. Alonso

Music recorded by
Cobla Ciutat Girona

Flabiol and tambourine: Òscar Sánchez
Tible I: David Plans
Tible II: Josep Salvatella
Tenora I: Josep Coll
Tenora II: Oriol Grèbol
Trumpet I: Joan Remacha
Trumpet II: Ton Martín
Trombone: Tomàs Espinosa
Flugelhorn I: Enric Estrada
Flugelhorn II: Joaquim Burjachs
Double bass: Eudald Sanllehí

Recording study
El local

Assistant director
Aina Minguell

Set design assistant
Sergio Arribas

Costume design assistant
Joana Llach

Lighting design assistant
Arnau Nadal

Set construction
Pascualin Estructures,
Carles Piera Claramunt,
Kike Blanco

Costume construction
Taller Goretti,
Flock Llanes,
La Casa de Barrets

Set dressing
Berta Riera

Production
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

Acknowledgments
Leonardo Sosa Constantini

TNC Technical and Management teams