‘L’oreneta’, work by Guillem Clua, with five awards -best editing, director, text, leading actor and actress- and the musical ‘Singing under the rain’ with eight awards -best musical, best performers for Ivan Labanda and Mireia Portas and monopolizing the most technical prizes- have become tonight the great winners of the 28th edition of the Premis Butaca, awards given by the public, which have been delivered tonight at the Pavelló d’Esports de Premià de Mar.
Clua’s work that ended up at La Villarroel co-produced by Focus, LA Zona and Un 9 Teatre a l’Est has won all five awards for which it was eligible. This work inspired by the homophobic attack that occurred in an LGTBIQ+ bar in Orlando (USA) in 2016 that left fifty dead, has been considered by the public as the best show seen in Barcelona between the 2021 and 2022 Grec Both the two protagonists of the work, Emma Vilarasau and Dafnis Balduzhave won the award for best performance while Xavier Mestres He has won the award for best director. Guillem Clua has triumphed in theatrical authorship with the ‘SGAE Foundation’ award for best text.
‘L’ oreneta’ has not given an option to the other theatrical productions also nominated such as ‘Animal negre tristesa’, ‘El pes d’un cos’ and ‘El cos més bonic que s’haurà trobat mai en aquest lloc’. The latter had a sensational Pere Arquillué as the sole protagonist of this singular work by Josep Maria Miró, winner this year of the National Prize for Dramatic Literature.
Breakthrough Awards
This time the veteran Arquillué has been left without an award for best actor. his daughter, Emma ArquillueHowever, she has won the award for best new actress for her role as Juliet in the modern version of ‘Romeu i Julieta’, which until recently filled the Poliorama and will soon go on tour. Also Guillem Balart, his partner in the same Shakespearean tragedy in the role of ‘queer’ Mercuri has won the Butaca Award for Best New Actor. The award recognizes not only his extraordinary work in this work directed by David Selvas, but also the talent shown in two other outstanding leading roles in ‘Carrer Robadors’, with which he made his debut at the Teatre Grec directed by Julio Manrique, and ‘Hamlet Aribau’, original proposal by the director Oriol Broggi.
Miriam Iscla has won Best Supporting Actress for her extraordinary work as commissioner Petróvitx, in the marathon adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crim i càstig’, at the Lliure. Y david bagesfor best supporting actor for his role as Archduke Duncan in Ionesco’s ‘Macbett’, which premiered on the TNC.
Rain of prizes
The nostalgia for the mecca of cinema, for that golden Hollywood that ‘Singing in the rain’ recreated, has prevailed in the musical section. Beyond the number that gives the show its title, the show worked thanks to a very well-rounded team and outstanding performers, although only two of them have won prizes: Ivan Labanda and Mireia Portas.
He played the heartthrob and she his fictional partner, an actress incapable of making the leap to talkies that Portas nailed by offering some of the funniest moments in the musical, currently on the bill in Madrid.
The production directed by the Llàcer-Guix tandem has triumphed as best musical and has swept all the technical categories: set design (Enric Planes), lighting design (Albert Faura), costumes (Míriam Compte), characterization (Elena Fenoy) and space sound (Roc Mateu). The only prize for another musical in this edition has been the “Fundación SGAE” Seat for the best musical composition for Andreu Gallen by the score of ‘I appreciate you if I have begut’.
Dance
In dance there has been a bit more diversity among the awarded works. ‘Reds’a work of Michael Barcelona that connects the current era with the Spanish post-war period, has risen as the best dance show and its creator, as the best male performer.
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