Activities

New edition of post-show colloquia moderated by the journalists Anna Guitart, Andrea Gumes and Queco Novell. This season we are offering:

— 02/10 El Mestre i Margarita with Queco Novell
— 06/11 Little Women with Andrea Gumes
— 28/11 El día del Watusi with Queco Novell
— 18/12 AI! La misèria ens farà feliços with Anna Guitart
— 19/02 El barquer with Queco Novell
— 26/02 Una festa a Roma with Anna Guitart
— 12/03 Dones valentes with Andrea Gumes
— 09/04 Mil tres, say cheese with Anna Guitart
— 16/04 Els estunmen with Andrea Gumes
— 14/05 El fill with Queco Novell
— 21/05 L’autora with Andrea Gumes
— 22/05 Contra Antígona with Anna Guitart

We invite you to come onstage and delve into the play in the company of experts on the underlying themes of some of this season’s shows.

22/09 El Mestre i Margarita with Manel Alías
Censorship, ostracism, silence and repression.

28/10 Little Women with Marta Orriols
Rebellion, emancipation, femininity and romanticism.

09/02 El barquer with Antoni Batista
Violence, polarised societies and geographies in conflict.

03/03 Dones valentes with Txell Feixas Torres
Resistance, combat, survival and courage.

17/03 Una festa a Roma with the Pasqual Maragall Foundation
Love, senility, dementia and mutual care.

21/04 Els estunmen with Maria Adell and Lluís Rivera (In Extremis)
Masculinity, special effects, film myths and heroes.

12/05 L’autora
Patriarchy, creation and ecofeminism.

26/05 Contra Antígona with Ada Colau
Dissidence, activism and status quo.

SCHEDULE
22/09 at 18.00 p.m.
All other sessions, at 7 p.m.

PRICE
€6 / Subscribers and Generació Lliure €3.
Booking required

TICKETS

The Arxiu Lliure’s conversation and debate sessions are continuing and now becoming bimonthly. This season, we want to know what the shows are talking about and engage in dialogue with today’s world: reviewing what we have done can lead to new perspectives, spark unexpected questions and suggest new ways of dealing with the present day and art.

— 13/10 When art questions order: Censorship, etc. In dialogue with El Mestre i Margarita
— 15/12 Friends, acquaintances and sojourners: the theatre bar
— 23/02 The theatre as a stage of conflict. In dialogue with El barquer
— 20/04 Architectures for an ephemeral art
— 01/06 Theatre or life. In dialogue with Contra Antígona and L’autora

AFTERNOON SESSIONS
18.30 p.m. in Montjuïc

PRICE
€2 / Generació Lliure €1 / Free for subscribers

TICKETS

La plaça is back in conjunction with CaixaForum+. It is a gathering place for in-depth conversations with some of the creators who are at the Lliure this season. There will be five chapters in a revamped format that seeks unique places away from the noise and hustle-and-bustle to encourage a calm, rich, open dialogue that enables us to examine the artists’ creative universes and their personal perspectives on the world and this time we are sharing.

You can access the new chapters of La plaça via the free CaixaForum+ platform.

Llum de guàrdia

The Llum de guàrdia collection of theatre texts, which we launched last season in a co-publication venture with Comanegra, is continuing. In addition to enjoying the titles that have already been published (L’herència, Prosopopeya, Fantàstic Ramon, Cor dels amants and La brama del cérvol), we are adding six new ones to the collection, in paper and ebook.

Happy reading!

Club Lliure

We are launching the Club Lliure Biblioteques Públiques de Catalunya, a book club via mobile phone on the Tellfy communication platform of Library Service. We will talk about the books we are publishing and others related to our shows. We will hold periodic digital gatherings, and you can come to some of our rehearsals. And we will have a calendar of the theatre activities in the city and further afield!

During the season, other in-person reading clubs will also be launched.

More books, more theatre, more connection.

Pallassos a la plaça

Yet another year we are partnering with the NGO Clowns Without Borders in its mission to make the most disadvantaged people laugh. Throughout the season, you can attend two free clown shows in Plaça Margarida Xirgu.

Mark the dates now!

08/11 and 09/05
Plaça Margarida Xirgu
At 12.00
Free

Viu Montjuïc / UNLOCK THE CITY!

We are celebrating the fifth edition of Viu Montjuïc, the weekend full of cultural activities and nature organised by Barcelona City Hall in conjunction with UNLOCK THE CITY!, the Creative Europe project that concludes this autumn.

On Saturday 4 October, the creators Anna Puigjaner and Alexandra Laudo will curate the event, which aims to contrast the light and bustle of the festival with the silence and stillness of darkness.

The celebration is divided into two parts. The first one will be led by the Fundació Mescladís and the community action organisations in the neighbourhood and will offer a tour through the neighbourhood festival. The second one, BlackOut, will take place at the Lliure and draws inspiration from the actions of the artist TRES, who specialises in research into silence.

04/10
In Montjuïc
Free

Barcelona Dibuixa with Oriol Bellvitge

Yet another year we are partnering with Barcelona Dibuixa, the drawing festival led by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona that is holding its fifteenth edition this year. The festival aims to promote drawing not only as a technique of creation and artistic expression but also as a tool of learning, play and communication, as well as an intellectual process.

This time, the workshop at the Lliure will be led by Oriol Bellvitge, a designer and stage creator who will connect drawing with the theatre arts.

18/10
Montjuïc. Hivernacle
From 16.00 to 20.00 p.m.
Free

The bar at the Gràcia venue is hosting two activities which share their connection with the city’s social stakeholders in the fields of inclusion and education. Both shows are free of charge during the bar’s hours.

Mescladís, 20 anys creant oportunitats

Mescladís is celebrating twenty years with a retrospective that pays homage to the community that fuels its mission of inclusion and sustainability. The exhibition showcases the stories, challenges and key milestones that consolidate the social impact of the Fundació Mescladís year after year. It is a benchmark project in the right to migrate with dignity in which food and culture converge to serve as a bridge towards more egalitarian universes.

Fabià Puigserver amb mirada d'infant

This is a group show of the artistic materials created by students from kindergarten to sixth grade at Barcelona’s La Sedeta School. They have resulted from their examination of the figure of Fabià Puigserver—a set and costume designer, stage director and founder of the Teatre Lliure—as part of the Escoles Tàndem project promoted by the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera. It is a visual survey of Puigserver’s life and the start of the Teatre Lliure reinterpreted from an unblemished, playful and creative perspective

Guided tours

Would you like to learn about the history of the Lliure and the Montjuïc building? These guided tours will take you around the most secret spots in what used to be the Palace of Agriculture of the 1929 Barcelona International Expo, a building officially inaugurated by King Alphonse XIII, and later the Barcelona Flower Market from 1962 to 1984. You’ll enter the dressing rooms and the Mirror Hall (Do you know where it got that name?); you’ll walk around backstage and step onto the stage; you’ll head down into the pit to find out what stands with spiralift are like; and you’ll then climb to the top, perched above everything in the Sala Fabià Puigserver.

DATES
Saturdays 13/12, 10/01, 07/02, 07/03, 07/03, 18/04 and 23/05
If you want to come in a group, you can arrange a tailor-made visit.

LANGUAGE
In Catalan

TIMETABLES
At 10.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m.

PRICE
Reservation €2 / Free for subscribers and Generació Lliure

TICKETS

MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT
ocampillo@teatrelliure.com

Virtual tour

In this interactive space you can enter the main parts of the Teatre Lliure facilities in both Montjuïc and Gràcia. The virtual tour contains all the same written and audio information as an in-person guided tour. Discover the spaces and the history of the Lliure from your home!