La Perla 29 is currently entering a new stage of growth. With twenty years of experience and over eighty theatrical productions, we have established a management and production model closely tied to unique artistic research and creation.
This approach has made La Perla 29 a beloved cultural hub recognized by audiences, and a vibrant player in the professional sector of performing arts. After two decades, we are embarking on what we feel is a third major phase of growth and exploration. If Incendis in 2012 marked the project's consolidation within our region, our structure is now ready to expand the artistic model internationally, exporting our theater and fostering new productions in Catalonia through cross-border artistic processes.
Our goal is to take our theater abroad, as we have done with the residency at Théâtre National La Colline in Paris with 28 i mig, the premiere of El Petit Príncep in Lisbon, or the staging of Bodas de Sangre at the Printemps des Comédiens Festival in Montpellier. We also aim to transform Teatre La Biblioteca into a hub for international artistic creation. More than explaining the world, we aim to engage in dialogue with it. Our way of working, our management and theatrical creation model, is exportable and should facilitate encounters between creators from diverse cultural backgrounds. A country's artistic richness enlarges through such synergy exchanges, leading to more diverse projects and a theater scene more interconnected with the world.
With this spirit, we have joined forces with The Tiger Lillies to create A Macbeth Song, by William Shakespeare, directed by Oriol Broggi. We premiered it at Teatre La Biblioteca in February 2025, and it is set to go on an international tour, which we are currently preparing. The Tiger Lillies are a British rock trio with the vibe of Berlin cabaret—a wild, festive style. They have composed 22 original songs, which they perform live every night, accompanied by three Catalan actors. We aim to tell this tragic story of power and war, guilt, bloodstained hands, death, enchantments, and the indelible memory of crimes committed in the grip of madness and ambition—as it has never been seen before.
At the same time, we are helping to drive forward the Shakespeare Festival in Barcelona and Catalonia. This festival has previously held eleven editions in Catalonia, some of which took place at Teatre La Biblioteca, and had become a leading festival in south-west Europe. The festival’s revival has been enthusiastically welcomed by the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN), which has accepted the future festival as a member. It is worth noting that there is no other festival of its kind anywhere else on the Iberian Peninsula, making it a strong platform for creating an international meeting space in our country—a project of national interest.
To support these initiatives and develop La Perla 29’s international strategy, we have expanded our structure with a team dedicated specifically to international management and outreach. This is allowing us to generate meetings and connections with theatres across Europe, and to develop several international projects that are currently in progress. We firmly believe in the importance of exporting La Perla 29’s theatre while also establishing an international meeting point at Teatre La Biblioteca. The responses we’ve received so far have been very positive and encourage us to keep working to enrich these artistic and cultural dialogues rooted in La Perla 29’s philosophy and theatrical practice. New paths lie ahead—exciting ones—and we are ready to embark on them with confidence and enthusiasm.
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