A different perspective on the life and work of Víctor Català / Caterina Albert.

Forced to camouflage herself under a male penname to avoid scandals, judgements and prejudices, Català was a revolutionary playwright. The writer herself spent the last 10 years in her bed, where she even received visitors. A real declaration of principles. Who was really hiding behind the alias? La Víctor C. is an approach to the enigmatic Empordà-born playwright through her stories and writings.

The difference in the other's gaze.

Five Spanish citizens, the children of immigrants, receive a letter with the word "deportation". A letter that forces them to leave for their parents’ country of origin. A country that is part of the family identity but is not theirs. A trip to memory, learning, the loss of innocence and the gaze towards what is unknown to us.

The moving and unknown story of Lili Elbe.

The dancer and choreographer Marta Carrasco pays tribute to the first openly transgender person in history to undergo sex change surgery: Lili Elbe. A brave and rebellious woman who took her desire to its ultimate consequences.

An electronic opera based on one of the most emblematic texts of Catalan literature.

Infanticida is the cry of a victim who everyone considers a criminal. A piece that transforms a very powerful monologue by Caterina Albert / Víctor Català into an electronic opera. A small format musical with original music by Clara Peya that conveys the anguish, guilt and suffering of the main character.

A dance show that explains a global issue to kids: child labour.

Our protagonists spend their days working in the fields without rest, planting one seed after another for hours and in the hot sun. But, to bear it, the two girls have turned their work into a game, because… it’s impossible to forbid a child from playing.

A criticism of the constant dissatisfaction with the world in which we live.

Increasingly self-conscious about the unattainable dream of becoming "someone" and fed up with a life of servility, Victoria passionately craves the lives of others and, more specifically, Stella’s. The waitress will find a way to exchange lives in a kind of contemporary "Cinderella" full of black humour that, at the end of the spell, reveals that we are nobody.

An epic and exciting journey through Africa. The crisis of the refugees told through music and hope.

A Man of Good Hope brings us closer to a reality that Europe has turned its back on for many years: Africa, immigrants and refugees. A musical theatre show based on real events: the journey of Asad, an eight-year-old orphan boy, to reach safety. A story by the prestigious South African company Isango Ensemble.

The extraordinary story of three sisters who overcome all barriers.

Three sisters, one path and one goal: the future in their hands. To achieve this, they face daily obstacles and dangers to get to school. They are aware that only education will open the doors to a better tomorrow. A suggestive, visual and wordless show that is inspired by the true story of girls and boys from all over the world.

From the street to the stage. A documentary theatre play that introduces the audience to the voice, emotion and experiences of the protagonists: the prostitutes.

In Prostitución, the audience experiences desire, need, secrecy, violence, tenderness, pain, pleasure. Paying for sex. Charging for sex. Putting yourself in the shoes of prostitutes, taking the risk and understanding. A show starring Carmen Machi, Nathalie Poza and Carolina Yuste that gives a voice to real testimonies.

A reflection on the short distance between life and death and, nevertheless, a lesson of hope.

El nedador del mar secret is the story of the difficult birth of a child told by his father. The night run to the hospital in a cold winter, what could have been and was not. William Kotzwinkle's novel about the loss of a child destroys any kind of idealisation of childbirth and speaks, with poetic language and restrained emotion, of the acceptance of harsh reality. 

Maika Makovski’s explosive energy in the intimacy of the Sala Petita.

Maika Makovski is an unpredictable artist. Her talent, her multitude of influences and her constant transformation make her a unique figure on the music scene. At the TNC, and in the intimacy of the Sala Petita, Makovski will present her latest work without filters: MKMK, a luminous and richly-textured musical album.

Manuela Infante’s unique, intelligent and poetic perspective of brings fire to life.

After the success of Estado vegetal, in which Manuela Infante explored how plants feel, think, and communicate and their relationship with humans, now the Chilean playwright looks at fire, its omnipresence and its devastating and transforming power.

An unsettling life behind the façade of a perfect family.

A family gathers together for dinner in honor of Juli, the son, who has completed his piano studies. They have prepared a celebration. But Juli doesn't show up. At this disappearance, each family member deals with the situation differently: the mother will seek comfort and help, the father will go out in search of the places he frequented and the sister will lock herself at home surrounded by melodramas and benzodiazepines. The paths of each one will enter a dreamy, comic and surprising labyrinth through which we will discover the ghosts of a family that seemed to be perfect.

A play by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet with a phantasmagorical and dreamlike atmosphere in which desire is the protagonist.

Desig is the haunting story of a married couple whose routine life is interrupted. Anonymous calls and a car with flickering lights on the side of a road. The mysterious connection with two strangers. Memories of a night that had almost been erased.

A delicate theatre of objects piece based on the writings of children who had never seen the sea.

This is the story of a promise that could not be kept, a promise made by a teacher to his pupils. The teacher was Antoni Benaiges. The pupils were boys and girls from the rural school in Bañuelos de Bureba, a village in the province of Burgos. The promise was made one winter day in 1936. He promised them the sea.

A reflection on insanity, paranoia and mistreatment and abuse perpetrated in the name of science.

Konrad has such good hearing that he has managed to hear almost everything. Now, he has secluded himself in La Calera, an old lime kiln, with his wife. In the silence of this isolated building, Konrad tries with little success to carry out a study that he considers vital and has obsessed him. But an incident on Christmas Eve will change everything.

The new production from Les Impuxibles promises to unsettle us again.

Harakiri seeks to free everything surrounding suicide from taboos and stigmas in order to see it as a rational option. On the stage, the place that allows the dead to relive and redie, an impossible meeting occurs between two adults who, one day, in a small universe, were mother and son. Is it possible for a mother to teach us more dead than alive? Is it possible for someone's suicide to make us freer?

With its own language that combines music, dance and text and always seeking activism through art, Les Impuxibles have also explored disorders and mental health in Suite TOC núm 6. and sexual violence in AÜC-el so de les esquerdes.

An epic and exciting journey through Africa. The crisis of the refugees told through music and humour.

A Man of Good Hope brings us closer to a reality that Europe has turned its back on for many years: Africa, immigrants and refugees. A musical theatre show based on real events: the journey of Asad, an eight-year-old orphan boy, to reach safety. A story by the prestigious South African company Isango Ensemble.

Ionesco strips down power and its mechanisms through humour, exaggeration and paradox.

Ionesco’s Macbett turns Shakespeare’s Macbeth into a comic tale of ambition, corruption, cowardice and excess, creating a tragic farce that takes human madness to its wildest extremes. The confirmation of the undeniable destructive impulses of a humanity that is moved by envy, jealousy and the conviction that only those who hold power can become free.

Els homes i els dies is the posthumous autobiography of David Vilaseca, where we find a powerful voice and provocative and stimulating literature.

22 years encapsulated in a diary. David Vilaseca captured his day-to-day life on paper from 1987, when he was 23 years old and a young student on an American campus, until 2009, when he was 45 and shortly before he died. Now, Xavier Albertí directs the theatrical adaptation of this revealing novel that turns the self, fears, sex and other personal experiences into high-flying literature.

“Often in life we learn the real reasons we do things over the fullness of time.”

The bluntness of Agnès Mateus and Quim Tarrida takes aim at hate.

Mateus & Tarrida, multidisciplinary artists, tackle political and social issues and tell the truth to people’s faces. They shed light on what the status quo wants to silence and name the victims of the system. Two politically incorrect artists who have surprised us with their previous shows: Hostiando a M and Rebota rebota y en tu cara explota.

What can lead you to wish for the death of someone you love?

A daughter has to take care of her father who, after suffering a stroke, undergoes a process of physical and mental deterioration that makes him totally dependent. The lack of personal resources and the precariousness of public authorities will make the situation enter into a kind of free fall spiral.

What is the point of keeping alive the body of someone who has lost all the faculties that make us human?

A linguistically surprising production based on the myth of Europa and its current boiling point.

It is peculiar, and also revealing, that the myth of abduction and rape is what gives Europe its name. Today, those on the opposite shore make the same journey across the Mediterranean, abducted by the idea of Europe, and, along the way, suffer rape and extortion. Many die at sea and those who do make it are welcomed by denial of asylum and “refugee camps”. At times like this and, after so many -isms, how can we believe in the European Union without resorting to EU-phemisms?