April Premieres at the TNC: Two Perspectives on Loss and Memory

This April, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya  premieres two productions that invite audiences to take a closer look at powerful and necessary realities:

El sonall

Projecte Ingenu
Directed by Marc Chornet Artells
Dates: April 9–26 (Taller de pintura).

An immersive experience that breaks the distance between audience and stage—a guided visit through the museum of forgetting. With live music and a 360-degree staging, the piece invites you to choose your own perspective while, all around you, the investigation of a real case unfolds: that of Catalina Muñoz, executed in September 1936 and buried with her nine-month-old son’s rattle in a mass grave in Palencia.

The work builds a personal journey as we discover how, 83 years later, following an excavation beneath a playground, the rattle is recovered and returned to its rightful owner, now in his eighties.

A powerful and moving theatrical experience that is, at once, an act of historical memory and a gesture of reparation.

Batecs

Written and dramaturgy by: Nídia Tusal, Alba Florejachs, Ariana Ruglio, Lara Díez Quintanilla
Directed by: Lara Díez Quintanilla
Dates: April 16 – May 3 (Sala Tallers).

Three protagonists—Carla, Joana, and Angie—encounter death when they were expecting life, and must navigate gestational grief at different stages of pregnancy. Three stories that, from different points in life, trace paths marked by solitude, ethics, and silence.

Three women confronting the desire—or pressure—to become mothers, the decision to have an abortion, infertility, the commercialization of assisted reproduction, recurrent loss, relationship and family conflicts, guilt, the coldness of medical language, the infantilization and pathologization of pregnant women, and, more broadly, all the forms of violence that affect women’s bodies and hearts throughout their fertile lives.