Maremar: the refugee crisis interpreted in theater

Theatre troupe Dagoll Dagom is back with a new play: ‘Maremar,’ a modern reworking of the Shakespearian piece ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre,’ which itself has never before been performed in Catalonia or in Spain. 

It's interpreted using music by Lluís Llach, Catalan singer-songwriter, and anti-Franco activist. The original play also takes place between modern-day Lebanon and Libya: inasmuch, the theater company also seized the occasion to set the backdrop as that of the refugee crisis.

Within each person forced to flee "there is a hero," says director

Just out, the show will run until January at the Poliorama Theater in Barcelona. Director Joan Lluís Bozzo explained that the central message within 'Maremar' is that "within each person who is forced to flee their country, for reasons of war or poverty, there is a hero."