La nostra ciutat

by Thornton Wilder direction Ferran Utzet dramaturgy Llàtzer Garcia

##general.period##:: 11/10 - 12/11/23
##general.room##:: Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver

Show completed

Timetable

Tuesday to Saturday at 19:00
Sunday at 18.00 h

Running time

2 h approx.

Place

Sala Fabià Puigserver

Language

In Catalan. Spanish and English subtitles on Saturday from 21/10

Price

€11 – €32 / Open rehearsals 07/10 and 10/10, €10 – €16

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

Accesible friday
27/10 and 10/11 adapted subtitles
03/11 audiodescription

BABYSITTING SERVICE
with Concilia Cultura
On weekend, from 30' before the performance
Children from 3 to 12 years
Mandatory reservation

Debate

19/10 after the show

GIRA
06/04/24 - Teatre Principal de Vilanova
04/05/24 - Teatre Zorilla de Badalona
12/05/24 - Teatre La Sala de Rubí
19/05/24 - Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat del Vallès
24/05/24 - Teatre Municipal de Girona
01/06/24 - Teatre Kursaal de Manresa

Show included in

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Tickets €10
Aftershow amb
Habla de mí en presente
DJ MBODJ (Maguette Dieng)

RELATED ACTIVITY
24/10 at 17:00
26/10 at 22:00
Per amor a les arts - Owr Town
by Sam Wood (1940)
at the Filmoteca de Catalunya

Description

The director Ferran Utzet is proposing a version of the mythical Our Town by the American playwright Thornton Wilder, which won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for theatre, a metaphysical piece on what it means to be human.

Critics Award 2024 to the best supporting actress to Paula Malia.

In a theatre, the Stage Manager introduces the audience to the rural town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire (USA) and its inhabitants: the Gibbs and Webb families, who are neighbours, and especially Emily Webb and George Gibbs, who soon fall in love and marry. The play follows the changes in this couple’s life over the course of 12 years, from the mundanity of devastation to romanticism, in a microcosm of the life cycle that is, in the words of the playwright Edward Albee, ‘the best American play ever written’.

WHO IS WHO?
The stage manager (Rosa Renom) introduces us to the small town of Grover’s Corners, in New Hampshire, and tells the story of some of its inhabitants, starting with...
Emily Webb (Paula Malia), the bright and determined young woman who will soon marry her next-door neighbor...
George Gibbs (Guillem Balart), the teenage sportsman and knucklehead, son of...
Frank Gibbs (Xavier Ripoll), the tireless village doctor and husband of...
Julia Gibbs (Rosa Boladeras), a dreamer and saver, also mother of...
Rebecca Gibbs (Tai Fati), George’s little sister and who goes to class with...
Wally Webb (Biel Montoro), Emily’s younger brother, son of...
Myrtle Webb (Mercè Pons), practical and sensitive, married to...
Charles Webb (Carles Martínez), the editor of the Sentinel, the newspaper that delivers every morning...
Joe Crowell (Lluís Oliver), a talented young man...
Professor Willard (Jenny Beacraft), the school teacher and confidant of...
Lady Soames (Isabel Rocatti), who knows everything about the town and participates in the choir she leads...
Simon Stimson (Albert Triola), the troubled organist of the church in which he also sings...
Howie Newsome (Oriol Genís), the village milkman, who talks with...
Agent Warren (Josep Sobrevals), the cop watching Grover’s Corners.

To learn more...
Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller: A Brief History of Time, Space, and Matter
Television version with Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman (1955)
The last Paul Newman performance (2003)
Traces of Thronton Wilder on Salvador Espriu?