L’IMPERATIU CATEGÒRIC

PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTION VICTORIA SZPUNBERG

##general.period##:: 04/06 — 22/06/25
##general.room##:: Gràcia

Timetable

Wednesday to Friday at 19.30 p.m
Saturday at 17.30 p.m. and 20.30 p.m.
Sunday at 18.30 p.m.

Running time

1 h 15’

Place

Gràcia

Language

In Catalan

Price

€12 - €32

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone
20/06 audiodescription and adapted over-titles

ON TOUR
25/04 Teatre Zorrilla de Badalona
06/05 Teatre Fortuny de Reus
09/05 Teatre Municipal El Jardí de Figueres
10/05 Teatre Municipal de Girona
11/05 Teatre La Sala Rubí
16/05 Espai l'Amistat de Premià de Mar
17/05 Espai d'Arts Escèniques Casal d'Alella
18/05 Teatre Kursaal de Manresa
23/05 Teatre-Auditori de Sant Cugat
24/05 Teatre El Goula de Begues
open booking

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Description

We are revisiting one of last season’s hits by the playwright and director Victoria Szpunberg. The Categorical Imperative is a spare yet tender comedy about the precariousness of the university, housing and loneliness featuring Xavi Sáez and Àgata Roca.

Memorial Margarida Xirgu Theater Award to Season 23/24's best actress.
Special Jury Award Teatre Barcelona 2024.

Clara G., an associate professor of ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy, is in crisis. After fifty, recently separated, unable to get a place in the university and about to be homeless, she begins to suffer strange attacks. She often faints, she hears persistent noises, she is invaded by dark, paranoid thoughts. Clara G. has been part of the system, but she is increasingly cornered, getting closer to the margin. She drifts, encountering several men, until his ethical compass is straightened by a chance find: a fabulously sharp kitchen knife.
What should be the pattern of her behaviour in an increasingly hostile environment? What are the ethical boundaries of a system that can only survive at the cost of the misery of others?