Historique
Teatre Lliure

The Teatre Lliure was set up in 1976 by a group of theatre professionals working in the independent theatre. Since then it has become renown for its emphasis on text-based theatre which involves the re-working of classic texts, as well as the promotion of contemporary dramatists and seasons in which theatre alternates with dance and music. Over the years it has been directed by Fabià Puigserver, Lluís Pasqual, Lluís Homar, Guillem-Jordi Graells and Josep Montanyès, and its commitment to the world of Catalan culture and its contribution to heightening public awareness of the theatre were rewarded right from the start by full houses and critical acclaim.
The Teatre Lliure was one of the founders in 1989 of the Union of European Theatres, a fact which demonstrates the company’s commitment to working beyond the confines of its own theatres and to taking its shows on tour to festivals far and wide. The Teatre Lliure has visited many European and a number of Latin American countries and, as part of its new phase, aims to work much more on national and international co-productions such as those already undertaken in the Hebbel Theater of Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Festival Grec of Barcelona, and elsewhere. Furthermore, since the inauguration of the new location in the old “Palau de l’Agricultura” at Montjuïc, many internationally recognised performers have taken the stage in its new theatres: Kristian Lupa, Carlo Cecchi, Philip Glass, Declan Donellan, Fura dels Baus, Philippe Decouflé, Cesc Gelabert, Carles Santos, Compagnie Hervé-Montalvo, Antonio Latella, Thomas Ostermeier, Jan Lauwers, Lluís Pasqual, Bob Wilson, Wooster Group and Peter Sellars.
Since March 2003 Àlex Rigola has been the director of the Teatre Lliure and during this period the theatre’s repertoire of drama, complemented by a good dose of contemporary dance, live music and many different types of innovations, has become fully established. The Teatre Lliure sees the stage as somewhere for taking risks with the emotions, as it has shown in the relevancy of the subject matter of both its new productions and its re-workings of established texts that contain ideas that are still valid today. Thanks to the recognition Rigola has acquired already and his team’s past successes along with a program that combines the risk and innovation target with the highest artistic standard, the Teatre Lliure is currently one of the leading references of the Spanish theatre scene.



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