Why do we need to create monsters? What is hidden behind them? Where and why do we devise threats? What are we protecting ourselves from? These are some of the questions posed by the new, ambitious text by Josep Maria Miró.

Early one morning, seemingly like any other, Santi and Berta, unable to sleep, wake up and have a conversation. Something has been unsettling them. For days. Perhaps even longer. It has to do with who they are today and with the small village where they live. And with the reappearance in their lives of someone dubbed in the village as "The Monster" after disappearing almost twenty years ago, when one of the darkest and murkiest chapters in local history took place.

El Monstre is a play for three performers that delves into the individual and collective darkness of a community, in a radical and essential commitment to language as the backbone of theatricality.

Josep Maria Miró is the author of works such asLa Majordoma [The Housekeeper] (2023), El cos més bonic que s’haurà trobat mai en aquest lloc [The Most Beautiful Body That Will Ever Be Found in This Place] (National Theatre Literature Award 2022, Critics' Award 2023, and 45th Born Award), and Temps salvatge [Wild Times] (Max Award 2018). He returns to the Grec Festival, where he has previously presented Jo, travesti [Story of a Cross-Dresser], L’habitació blanca [The White Room], Nerium Park, and El principi d’Arquimedes [Archimedes’ Principle], which will be re-staged this year in Catalonia nearly a decade and a half after its first premiere and following over twenty translations and fifty productions worldwide.

El Monstre won the 32nd Jardiel Poncela Award for theatre texts and the 18th Quim Masó Award for plays in Catalan. The Quim Masó Award provided financial support for its production and its premiere at the Grec Festival and Temporada Alta Festival.

A production by Sala Trono

Winner of the 17th Quim Masó award for theatre production projects.

During the performance on July 9, there will be surtitles in English.