Theatre Productions Staged in Barcelona

What survives the run of a show staged in Barcelona: production photographs, scenes, reels, set and costume drawings, uploaded by the companies and artists who made them. Every piece can be opened full size, with whatever its author wrote about the production underneath.

This is not a listings page. What is here is the record of what has already been played: a set model shot head-on from the front row, two minutes of a fight call, a lighting state that lasted eight bars, costume drawings with fabric swatches still stapled on. Embedded video and audio carry the sound design.

Video and audio play in place, uploaded or embedded from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud or Spotify, and every image opens full size. Looking asks nothing. Following a company does, and it pays off, because theatre goes quiet between productions. To talk to somebody about a piece of work, the contact details sit on the artist's own artist page, not with us.

A small-room production plays three or four weekends and then it is gone. The Catalan-language season and the Spanish-language one leave about the same trace: dress rehearsal photographs and not much else. Whether a show can be looked at again years later depends entirely on somebody in the company having uploaded it.