Couples, marriages... a dangerous game in Barcelona's theatrical spring

Couples, marriages… a dangerous game in Barcelona’s theatrical spring

There is no doubt that Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is one of the most iconic plays of the 20th century. And it talks about nothing more than a marriage: the battle royale starring Martha and George is legendary, with some iconic lines. Like when she, after hearing him say he can’t take it anymore, shoots back: “You can take it! That’s why you married me!”. Ingmar Bergman delved into the subject with the masterful series Scenes from a Marriage, adapted for the stage a thousand times. Right now, at the Maldà, the company El Eje is performing a quite successful version of the classic, Escenes d’una separació, with a script by Eva Pauné Martínez. It turns Marianne and Johan into Alba and Joana, a lesbian couple trying to survive in present-day Barcelona. They love and hate each other at the same time, but they can’t live without being together. Mar Pawlowsky and Patrícia Bargalló know how to take their characters to the limit, with the mirror of the creatures created by the Swedish genius as a reflection. An excellent performance.

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The EU tries to seduce Greenland with another 200 million amid Trump's ambitions

The EU tries to seduce Greenland with another 200 million amid Trump’s ambitions

The European Union wants to be more present in Greenland. While at the White House, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been insisting for months on annexing the Arctic island, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has traveled to Von der Leyen to announce a new strategy towards the island that includes 200 million euros more in investments and also a strengthening of political ties with the Danish autonomous territory, whose future, she has insisted, concerns only Greenland and Denmark “and no one else.”

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The CIS places the PSOE at its highest point in the legislature, with Vox falling

The CIS places the PSOE at its highest point in the legislature, with Vox falling

The PSOE would win the general elections if they were held now and would do so with the maximum support of the entire legislature, an estimated 36.4% of the vote, according to the April barometer from the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), released this Monday, which places the PP thirteen points behind the socialists, with 23.6% -a result similar to that of recent months-, and portrays Vox in free fall, with 14.7%, four points less than in February.

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The rift between Florenci and Jordi Pujol comes to light

The rift between Florenci and Jordi Pujol comes to light

Florenci Pujol lived with growing anguish in the last years of his life. The use that his son, Jordi, made of Banca Catalana worried him greatly. This is evident from the unpublished entries of the diary of his son-in-law, Francesc Cabana, to which La Vanguardia has had access. Cabana, 91 years old, is the widower of Jordi Pujol’s sister. In 1988, the lawyer and economic historian published Banca Catalana. Personal Diary, a history of the entity of which he was secretary general, general director, and vice president. The volume included some entries from his diary during the time at the bank. Cabana’s personal diary, however, contained more notes that he did not include at that time.

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