Smiley, Després de l’amor, the sequel to Smiley, Una història d’amor, returns to Barcelona for a short run in December 2023. First premiered in November 2020, the play had a short run marked by the health restrictions of the COVID epidemic, but was a major success with audiences and critics despite the circumstances. Aware that…
2023 has seen three new international productions of the first Smiley in Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Miami. The first to premiere was the Mexican production, which opened on 2 March at La Teatrería and was still running when this news was published in September. Directed by Joserra Zúñiga, it alternates the leading roles among…
Filming began in the Canary Islands on 13 March on La bandera, the film adaptation of Al damunt dels nostres cants. The film is directed by Martín Cuervo, his third feature after Con quién viajas and Todos lo hacen, and stars Imanol Arias, Aitor Luna, Miquel Fernández and Ana Fernández. The screenplay is by the…
On 7 February, Madrid hosted the gala for the CEC medals, awarded by the Circle of Cinematographic Writers. In the Best Adapted Screenplay category, the CEC honoured Oriol Paulo, Guillem Clua and Lara Sendim for their work on God’s Crooked Lines. As Bestas was the major winner of the 78th edition, receiving nine medals for…
The nominations for the 37th Goya Awards, which will be presented in Seville next 11 February, were announced today. The screenplay for The Beasts of God, written by Guillem Clua and Oriol Paulo, is in the running for Best Adapted Screenplay. Clua and Paulo will compete against Carlota Pereda (Piggy), Paul Urkijo Alijo (Irati), David…
Filming began on Monday on Invasión, a film based on the play of the same name, premiered in 2013 by La Joven. The film is produced by Álamo Producciones, which has already brought plays by Guillem Clua (The Skin on Fire) and other contemporary playwrights such as Marta Buchaca (Litus, Solo una vez) to the…
L’oreneta was the big winner in the spoken-theatre categories at the Premis Butaca de Teatre gala held last Monday. The Catalan version of La golondrina, premiered at La Villarroel and co-produced by Focus, LaZona Teatro and Un 9 Teatre a l’Est, took the five most coveted awards of the night: Best Text (Guillem Clua), Best…
The International Series Festival, Serielizados Fest, will open its ninth edition in Barcelona with the premiere of Smiley, Netflix’s new series based on Guillem Clua’s acclaimed play (winner of the 2020 National Dramatic Literature Award). Clua serves as showrunner on this adaptation, starring Carlos Cuevas (Merlí) and Miki Esparbé (Reyes de la noche). The opening…
Arola Editors, one of the leading publishers of theatre texts in Catalan, has presented the new volume in the Teatre Reunit collection devoted to Guillem Clua’s work. The book gathers 14 of the author’s texts, from his debut Invisibles (2002) to Justícia (winner of the 2020 National Dramatic Literature Award). All the pieces have been…
Justícia, recently awarded the National Dramatic Literature Award, has received another honour, this time at the 2020 Premis Butaca, in the Best Text category. The gala of the 26th edition of Catalonia’s most important theatre awards was held in a reduced format because of the pandemic at Teatre l’Amistat in Premià de Mar, where these…
This week filming began on the screen adaptation of La piel en llamas, one of Guillem Clua’s plays with the greatest international reach. The film is directed by David Martín-Porras, who co-wrote the screenplay with the original playwright, and is produced by Álamo Producciones Audiovisuales and La Panda Producciones. The cast is led by Óscar…
Guillem Clua is co-writing with Oriol Paulo the screenplay for the big-screen adaptation of one of the most popular novels of recent decades: The Crooked Lines of God, by Torcuato Luca de Tena. The film will be directed by Paulo, responsible for hits such as The Invisible Guest and During the Storm, and will star…
An abandoned industrial warehouse welcomes audiences to the Miami production of Ilíada (USA). Conceived as a fiercely contemporary spectacle, it features fifteen actors on stage and, in the words of its director, Kevin Cass, “a young, different and bold staging”. Scaffolding and mobile staircases, light panels, live combats recreating the wars and striking costumes turn…
La golondrina returns to the stage today to resume its national tour, which will run until December 2019. The play can be seen all this week at Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville (tickets are available here) and features actor Dafnis Balduz as Ramón, a role previously played by Félix Gómez. Carmen Maura continues to…
The first Latin American premiere of La golondrina took place on 25 August at the Teatro del Notariado in Montevideo, Uruguay. Directed by Gerardo Begérez, the production features national actress Estela Medina as Amelia, alongside actor Marcos Valls as Gustavo (Ramón in the original version). Estela Medina is a prominent Uruguayan theatre actress with a…