Dramatist and scriptwriter for many plays and TV series you’ll have seen in recent years, Cristina Clemente recreates an extreme situation within the heart of a family at El Maldà. Mercè has spent years taking care of her husband who’s suffering from the after-effects of a stroke. Every Thursday, she invites her son and daughter round and cooks them a paella. But this Thursday everything will be different. The children may have thought that their mother would always care for their father, and that every Thursday they’d have a paella on their plates, but Mercè has fallen madly in love with someone else and needs to start a new life.
This show is part of a joint collaboration project between authors and directors from Catalonia and Argentina. It's been designed to be staged between three local theatres as part of the 'On el teatre batega' project: El Maldà (La paella del dijous), Sala Flyhard (Silvia) and Sala Versus Glòries (Rovira versus Rodríguez). Each venue will be hosting a different production, but with the same characters: come and see all three, and you'll understand the whole of the story they tell. For now the plays will be shown in Barcelona, with the intention of fostering bilateral artistic relations through the exchange of performing arts professionals in production and co-production projects. In the near future, the shows produced as part of this initiative will also be playing in theatres in Buenos Aires.
An On el teatre batega, Sala Flyhard, El Maldà and Sala Versus Glòries production.
Coproduced by Grec 2023 Festival de Barcelona, el Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya i Iberescena.
Dramaturgy: Cristina Clemente. Direcció: Muguet Franc. Performing: Jordi Andújar, Lluïsa Castell, Núria Cuyàs. Set: Elisenda Pérez. Costumes: Maria Albadalejo. Lighting Design: Xavi Gardés. Soun Design: Damià Duran. Light and sound technician: Maria Martín. Trainee student (direction): Mar Mañez (Timbal). Trainee student (production): Anna Castañé (Formació Xarxa de Productores). Trainee student (scenography): Quim Algora (IT), Production coordination: Montse Farrarons, Clara Cols. Executive production: Jofre Blesa, Marina Marocs, Sergio Matamala. Artistic coordination: Adrià Aubert, Jofre Blesa, Sergio Matamala. Communications and press:Rafaela Rivas, Ester Cánovas, Anna Castillo. Elisenda Riera.
