What would you do if you had just one more month to live? Pere has a long list of crazy things he wants to do before the end: quit his job, go round the world, be shamelessly honest with everyone, walk naked along Passeig de Gràcia, climb Montserrat on his knees, have a threesome... And the most important: make sure his wife will be happy when he's gone. He has a strategy in place, which, according to him, cannot fail. But... Can he make it work?
Quant temps em queda? is a comedy to die laughing. The author, Marta Buchaca - one of the playwrights closely followed by a Grec festival attentive to local creation - already portrayed a generation whose youth was slipping away in plays such as Emergència (2006), where she imagined four friends who suffered and shared their sentimental catastrophes; Les nenes no haurien de jugar al futbol (2009), in which a traffic accident exposes the unexpected relationships between three characters; Losers (2013), a romantic comedy, finalist in the Temporada Alta Playwriting Tournament, about what happens when you find the love you have been chasing for so long; the highly acclaimed Litus (2012), a comedy with elements of thriller made into a film by Dani de la Orden that was created in response to the suicide of a young man; or, more recently, Només una vegada, a story about gender violence seen at the Grec 2018 Barcelona Festival and also adapted into a film directed by Guillermo Ríos; and Rita, a play about mother-son relationships and the possibility of making decisions about the deaths of those we love, for which she won the Frederic Roda Theatre Award.
A coproduction of La Pocket, Focus and the Grec 2022 Festival Barcelona.
With the support of ICEC - Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Generalitat de Catalunya, Department of Culture), Barcelona City Council and INAEM .
National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (Government of Spain, Ministry of Culture and Sport).
The show has been financed by European Union Next Generation Funds, Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (Government of Spain), Next Generation Catalunya (Generalitat de Catalunya).
Accessible performance with audio description, overtitling and magnetic loop on 1 July, at 6 p.m.
Director and dramatist: Marta Buchaca. Cast: Lluís Villanueva, Betsy Túrnez, Marta Bayarri, Xavi Ricart. Stage design: Sebastià Brosa. Costume designer: Miriam Compte. Lighting design: Ganecha Gil- Sound design: David Solans. Choreographer: Marta Bayarri.
