{"id":23967,"date":"2025-07-16T10:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focus.cat\/?p=23967"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:35:29","slug":"la-villarroel-premieres-grand-canyon-the-new-success-of-catalan-playwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focus.cat\/en\/la-villarroel-premieres-grand-canyon-the-new-success-of-catalan-playwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon returns \u2014 the powerful play by Sergi Pompermayer about the need to fight for dreams and freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Directed by Pere Arquillu\u00e9<\/strong> and featuring a cast led by Joan Carreras<\/strong> and Mireia Aixal\u00e0<\/strong>, the show premiered as part of the GREC Festival and will now open the season at La Villarroel<\/strong>, once again presenting this raw and moving story about inequality, social precariousness, and despair \u2014 which is also, at heart, a tribute to freedom and the pursuit of our dreams.<\/p>\n

The second of Sergi Pompermayer<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cAmerican stories\u201d and a conceptual (though not narrative) continuation of Am\u00e8rica, also premiered at La Villarroel, Grand Canyon<\/em><\/a> has had a strong impact on both critics and audiences. It has been praised for the powerful performances of the cast, the immersive atmosphere of its staging, and Pompermayer\u2019s text \u2014 hailed as one of the finest works ever written by the author.<\/p>\n

The production will run for 2 weeks only at La Villarroel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Directed by Pere Arquillu\u00e9 and featuring a cast led by Joan Carreras and Mireia Aixal\u00e0, the show premiered as part of the GREC Festival and will now open the season at La Villarroel, once again presenting this raw and moving story about inequality, social precariousness, and despair \u2014 which is also, at heart, a tribute … Llegeix m\u00e9s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":23959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"class_list":["post-23967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGrand Canyon returns \u2014 the powerful play by Sergi Pompermayer about the need to fight for dreams and freedom - Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.focus.cat\/la-villarroel-premieres-grand-canyon-the-new-success-of-catalan-playwriting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ca_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grand Canyon returns \u2014 the powerful play by Sergi Pompermayer about the need to fight for dreams and freedom - Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Directed by Pere Arquillu\u00e9 and featuring a cast led by Joan Carreras and Mireia Aixal\u00e0, the show premiered as part of the GREC Festival and will now open the season at La Villarroel, once again presenting this raw and moving story about inequality, social precariousness, and despair \u2014 which is also, at heart, a tribute ... 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