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L’Emperadriu del Paral·lel

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  • Lluïsa Cunillé
  • Directed by Xavier Albertí
  • Sala Gran
  • 6/05/2021 al 13/06/2021

The playwright Lluïsa Cunillé conjures with the phantoms of El Paral·lel in a great symphony of Barcelona’s nocturnal bohemia

A few months before the Second Republic is proclaimed, Barcelona mourns its most beloved and acclaimed artist: Palmira Picard, "L’Emperadriu del Paral·lel". While Barcelona’s great avenue of leisure is in mourning, the effervescence of the night has summoned all kinds of stage artisans, libertarian thinkers, bohemian writers and other heterodox agitators to La Tranquil·litat bar, who will get drunk to the health and memory of the great woman.

Like a vibrant scenic symphony, and to the rhythm of cuplés, political proclamations and coarse witticisms, Lluïsa Cunillé's L’Emperadriu del Paral·lel conjures up the bustle of 1920s Paral·lel and the frenzy of the early 1930s, which would soon be condemned to swallow down so much bitterness in a single gulp.

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Production team

Author
Lluïsa Cunillé
Directed by
Xavier Albertí
Cast
Pere Arquillué, Montse Esteve, Chantal Aimée, Alejandro Bordanove, Oriol Genís, Maria Hinojosa, Sílvia Marsó, Mont Plans, Jordi Domènech, Aina Sánchez, Roberto G. Alonso, Carme Sansa and Albert Mora
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    Costumes
    Lluc Castells
    Marian García


    Sound
    Jordi Bonet

    Set design
    Lluc Castells

    Director's assistant
    Roger Vila

    Choreography
    Roberto G. Alonso

    Set design assistant
    Mercè Luchetti

    Characterization
    Imma Capell

    Lighting
    Ignasi Camprodon
    Figurinist
    Lluc Castells
    Marian García

    Costumes assistant
    Irene Fernández

    Costume design
    Antonia Pérez
    Trinidad Rodríguez
    Inés Mancheño
    Goretti

    Realization of a feather cap by Jordi Domènech
    Nina Pawlowsky
    Production
    Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

    Acknowledgements
    Centre de Documentació i Arxiu de la SGAE
    Mercè Fontova (SGAE)
    Teatre Lliure (clothing assignment by María Araujo)
    Focus (clothing assignment by María Araujo)
    Teatre del Raval
    Dimonia Tattoo!
    Punto Blanco


    The costumes for L'Emperadriu del Paral-lel are a tribute to the extraordinary theatre costume designer María Araujo, who died in March 2020.

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