La corona d'espines

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Josep Maria de Sagarra

Directed by Xavier Albertí

Sala Gran

13/11/25 al 21/12/25

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La corona d'espines

Violence against women's bodies, fatherhood and the possibility of redemption combine in this wonderful score of verses by Josep Maria de Sagarra

La corona d’espines, a verse play by Josep Maria de Sagarra, directed by Xavier Albertí, revives and rediscovers one of the great plays of Catalan theatre heritage.

Set in Solsona in the late 18th century, the play narrates the entanglements of a marriage agreement between a pubilla and a young man without parents, where money needs and suspicions are mixed up.

Honour, power, impossible love and social hypocrisy in a tragedy that becomes a critique of the society of the time.

Authorship
Josep Maria de Sagarra

Direction and musical composition
Xavier Albertí

With
Manel Barceló, Jan D. Casablancas, Jordi Domènech, Abel Folk, Oriol Genís, Àngels Gonyalons, Pau Oliver, Júlia Roch, Laia Valls, Rosa Vila, Roger Vilà

Set design
Max Glaenzel

Costumes
Sílvia Delagneau,
Marc Udina

Lighting
Juan Gómez-Cornejo

Characterization

Toni Santos

Sound
Jordi Bonet

Set construction
Pascualin Estructures with the collaboration
of Eva Moreno and Jordi Agustí,
Big Image Systems,
Pro-Escena Albadalejo,
Miquel Grima,
Lucky Mora Studio

Costume manufacturing
Goretti,
Javier Navas

Assistant Director
Roger Vila

Set assistant

Josep Iglesias

Dressing room assistant
Maria Albadalejo

Lighting assistant

Albert Pastor

Production
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

Acknowledgements
Archivo Fotográfico del Museo Nacional del Prado

Images of the scenary

Claudio de Lorena, Paisaje con el entierro de santa Serapia, cap al 1639. Oil on convas. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
Claudio de Lorena, El embarco de santa Paula Romana, cap al 1639. Oil on convas. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
Claudio de Lorena, Moisés salvado de las aguas, 1639-1640. Oil on convas. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.