Ànima Lliure

We are once again focusing on diversity via Ànima Lliure, a project that aims to turn our theatre into an artistic space open to the perspectives, voices and bodies of people we seldom see at performances. After all, we believe that a theatre is a great place to make the invisible increasingly visible.

This year’s programming includes four Ànima Lliure shows, divided between the Gràcia and Espai Lliure venues the over the course of the season, accompanied by a specific programme of informative and/or training activities that complement the shows.

Three of them are international guest productions, three tiny gems from French-speaking territories which will most certainly be inspiring for our artists with or without diversity, and for our audiences. Treballs forçats [Forced Labours], created and directed by Nico Jongen and co-produced by the Lliure, is our focus on investigation and creation in the realm of functional diversity. Plus, we will be holding an artistic residency project for the elderly with the director Mohamed El Khatib.

In addition to the parallel activities that come with Ànima Lliure shows, which will include the participation of students from the Institut del Teatre’s social and community action classes, we will work with the Teatre Municipal de Girona and Escenaris Especials to organise a course on dramaturgy targeted at people with functional diversity. Coordinated by Clàudia Cedó, it will enlist the participation of renowned authors from Catalonia. In June, we will hold an open display of the texts that emerge from this writing workshop at the Gràcia venue.

A project in partnership with the Fundació Banc Sabadell.