Parking Shakespeare celebrates one decade onstage

The theatre company Parking Shakespeare, which offers a play by William Shakespeare performed outdoors and free of charge every summer, and in the winter, too, for the past several seasons, is reviving two plays from its past to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The first is L'Amansi(pa)ment de les Fúries, which will be performed on odd days in July, as well as 14 and 18 July, in the Parc de l'Estació del Nord, and the second is Titus Andronicus, which will be onstage on the even days of the month and 7 and 21 July at the same venue. July will prove to be a real marathon for the company, as it will not take a single day off, compounded by the challenge of alternating the shows. The finishing touch will come on the last day of the month: they will close Barcelona’s Grec Festival at the Teatre Grec with a performance of Titus Andronicus at 7:30 pm and of L'Amansi(pa)ment de les Fúries at 10 pm.

Neither play was chosen randomly: L'Amansi(pa)ment de les Fúries was the first play performed by Parking Shakespeare, and Titus Andronicus was their first tragedy. The director of the former is Carla Rovira, who focuses on the way anger in women is criminalised, especially when they show their feminist fury. Israel Solà directs Titus Andronicus, a Shakespeare play that is performed frequently, even though some doubt that the English playwright actually wrote it because of its violence and its structure. In both plays, spectators can hear the Catalan translation, made in the day by Salvador Oliva, out of the mouths of a dozen performers.

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