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Una venjança com n'hi ha poques + Es rifa un home! + Les cartes

  • EPICENTRE PIONERES (Show canceled)
  • Lluïsa Denís, Rosa M. Arquimbau and Víctor Català
  • Directed by Ester Villamor, Marta Aran and Clara Manyós
  • Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
  • 18/03/20 al 19/03/20

Three female playwrights from the beginning of the 20th century that deserve to be rediscovered

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) will host the presentation of these three pieces in the framework of a show that will dialogue with the visual arts of their time.

In Una venjança com n’hi ha poques, a “tragedy in one act”, the final meeting between a rich bourgeois person and his lover is used by Lluïsa Denís to depict the violence concealed in the unequal relations between the sexes. The playwright published her only two plays in 1931, the year of the death of her husband Santiago Rusiñol, with whom Denís’ second play, Els caçadors furtius, explicitly dialogues.

In Es rifa un home!, a “satirical note in one act” from 1935 and the first play by Rosa Maria Arquimbau, a ladies’ club organises a draw to adopt an attractive young aristocrat who has lost everything because of the advent of the Republic. In the Teatre Romea and the Teatre Poliorama the company Vila-Daví premiered three other plays by the writer during the Spanish Civil War, but her work as a whole remained unseen.

Les cartes is one of the most amazing plays by Víctor Català, and was published a year after the death of Caterina Albert. In this monologue, presented as a theatrical experiment, an anonymous woman tries to explain her misfortunes with a narrative and linguistic spontaneity that constantly puts the theatrical codes in tension, and anticipates the tragicomic irony of Mercè Rodoreda’s theatre.

Una venjança com n'hi ha poques, de Lluïsa Denís
Directed by: Ester Villamor

Es rifa un home!, de Rosa M. Arquimbau
Directed by: Marta Aran

Les cartes, de Víctor Català
Directed by: Clara Manyós
COVID-19 performances cancellation: Following the measures taken by the Catalan Government regarding the situation of COVID-19, the TNC cancels its performances an public activities during 15 days: from Thursday, March 12 until Thursday March 26 included.

Production team

Author
Lluïsa Denís, Rosa M. Arquimbau and Víctor Català
Directed by
Ester Villamor, Marta Aran and Clara Manyós
  • + Information
    Una venjança com n’hi ha poques

    Direction
    Ester Villamor

    Videocreation
    Alfonso Ferri

    Cast
    Berta Giraut
    Joan Marmaneu
    Albert Pérez
    Martina Roura



    Les cartes

    Direction
    Clara Manyós

    Cast
    Carla Torres
    David Verdaguer



    Es rifa un home!

    Direction
    Marta Aran

    Cast
    Laia Alsina i Riera
    Andrea Artero
    Denise Duncan
    Pep García Pascual
    Rocío Manzano
    Carla Rovira
    Space, costumes and characterization
    Patricia Albizu

    Lighting y sound
    Bernat Tresserra

    Production
    Teatre Nacional de Catalunya i Museu Nacional
    d’Art de Catalunya

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