Lluís Pasqual, winner of the Almagro Corral de Comedias Award
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The jury values the contribution of the founder of Teatre Lliure to transform scenic languages
The theater director Lluís Pasqual (Reus, 1951), founder of Teatre Lliure, has been chosen "Corral de Comedias de Almagro 2022 Award", an award that he will receive on June 30 at the opening ceremony of the 45th edition of the International Festival of Classic Theater of Almagro (Ciudad Real).
The board of trustees of this festival has unanimously agreed to award this award "for his career as a stage director, his importance as a transformer of scenic languages and the bridge he has built between theatrical tradition, heritage and the contemporary and avant-garde look », as indicated this Friday by the director of the festival, Ignacio García, for whom «it is a gesture of justice to recognize him and thank him for his effort to consolidate contemporary theater in Spain and to put Spain in Europe and in the world». «To speak of Lluís Pasqual is to speak of our theater history, of four decades of theatrical democracy and which also coincide, more or less, with the 45 years of the Almagro Festival because his vision of theater has no complexes and, without giving up tradition and heritage, has dared to look at it and challenge it from a different point of view”, added the director of this festival.
Lluís Pasqual graduated in Philosophy and Letters and in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre of the Diputación de Barcelona. In 1968 he directed his first show and in 1976 he founded Teatre Lliure, an essential formation of theater in Catalonia, whose direction he has occupied in various periods. He also directed the National Dramatic Center between 1983 and 1989 and in the following decade he took charge of the L'Odeon Theater in Paris, where he remained for six years. Later he directed the Venice Biennale and the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao. He is also the holder of the National Theater Prize, the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur of France and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.
With the award of the "Corral de Comedias de Almagro Award", Pasqual joins his names to great figures of the scene who also received this award in past years such as Julieta Serrano, Nuria Espert, Vanessa Redgrave, Francisco Nieva, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Concha Velasco or Jose Sacristan.
