Shakespeare, refugees, Catalan protest music in a play reimagined

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 performed in Catalonia or in Spain. And, for its debut in the country, it will be 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.

An Odyssey-like Shakespearian voyage

The show will debut in September at the Poliorama Theater in Barcelona, and run until January. Director Joan Lluís Bozzo explained that the Shakespearian play has “Odyssey-like elements, it’s an endless voyage of the protagonist by sea, shipwrecked, losing his wife and daughter in a storm.”