Grec spotlights European creativity this summer

This year’s El Grec Fes­ti­val aims to rouse au­di­ences and get them back into the­atres after two years of pan­demic, whether it be open-air pro­duc­tions in the Teatre Grec or in­side in the Teatre Lli­ure, on Mon­tjuïc, or at any of the other twenty or so par­tic­i­pat­ing venues scat­tered through­out the city.

After five years in which the fes­ti­val has fo­cused on cul­tures around the world, this year the fes­ti­val re­turns the spot­light to Eu­rope. The pro­gramme of events in­cludes per­for­mances from dif­fer­ent Eu­ro­pean coun­tries, such as the Ned­er­lands Dans The­ater who kicked off pro­ceed­ings at the end of June, a Ger­man ver­sion of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the Peo­ple by Schaubühne Berlin, and one of the great fig­ures of Eu­ro­pean the­atre, Shake­speare, with a pro­duc­tion of Ham­let di­rected by Pe­ru­vian Chela De Fer­rari.

From Britain comes Next To Nor­mal, an im­mer­sive mu­si­cal at Barcelona’s Ideal dig­i­tal arts cen­tre dur­ing July, while Cuca Roseta head­lines a night ded­i­cated to Por­tuguese ’fado’ music on July 15. The imag­i­na­tive uni­verse of Ital­ian film di­rec­tor Fed­erico Fellini is in the spot­light on July 11 and 12, in 28 i mig, by Oriol Broggi’s com­pany La Perla 29.