The collaboration between local theatres and the Grec Festival, which began in 2020 and has produced highly engaging performance projects, focuses on works in their early stages of development within Barcelona’s theatre scene. Each year, a cycle of staged readings is organised, selected from submissions received through a public call. Some of the readings brought to the stage go on to become full productions that are later featured in future editions of the Festival.
The call for staged readings is being repeated in this year’s edition of the Festival. Take note: some of the selected pieces may be developed into fully staged productions that you could see during the 2026 Barcelona Grec Festival or in future editions.
The readings of El Batec del Grec 2025 are:
XX July, at XX
An Overwhelming Desire to Live
by Roger Torns - El Maldà
Four actors present a free adaptation inspired by Three Sisters by Chekhov —a reflection on theatre through characters who are uneasy in the present, nostalgic for the past, and yearning for a future they fear will never come.
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XX July, at XX
Ana Karenina at Halloween
by Eva Halac - Sala Fènix
Tolstoy’s character hovers over this play by a writer from Buenos Aires. It follows an actress who gives up her career when she becomes pregnant and her partner, a politician, climbing ever higher up the political ladder. On a dreadful night, they open the box of resentments and frustrations.
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XX July, at XX
The Second Impact Syndrome
by Concha Milla and Manel Moreno - Sala Flyhard
Diana Gómez, Artur Busquets, Rafa Delacroix and Georgina Latre perform a reading presented by the company 42KM. The characters are a group of friends reuniting after many years. When one of them loses her memory in an accident, the group begins to wonder how different their lives might be if they could start over.
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XX July, at XX
I Was in *, and I Thought of You
by Projecte Roma Elna Roca - Teatre Eòlia
A text-based performance piece created from travel souvenirs. We all have them at home, but why did you buy them, and why have you kept them? You might find out in a Souvenir Museum that suddenly transforms into a stage. Starring Alícia Martí.
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XX July, at XX
A Refuge in the Sun
by Pol Sanuy and Jumon Erra - Sala Versus Glòries
Kai’s grandmother shares with him the diary of an ancestor who lived through the war, a sensitive person who rebelled against the conflict he was forced to live through. What he finds is a young man as lost and disenchanted as today’s youth. This is a celebration of life and of revolution made from the margins. The revolution will be queer —or it will not happen at all.
