Gas Natural Fenosa : Dramatic stage readings in the Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation Gas Museum Mirador

• The Gas Museum hosts the 'Drama Nights' series, which takes place every Wednesday during July and August at 8 pm.

• Audiences will have the unique opportunity to discover the best theatrical productions from the Sala Beckett Instituto de Teatro and from the Obrador in Barcelona.

The Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation Gas Museum is hosting the fourth edition of 'Drama Nights', a series ofdramatic stage readings,which will take place every Wednesday during the month of July and August at 8 pm in the building's mirador. According to the Gas Museum's managing director, Eva Buch, 'during this series, audiences will have the unique opportunity to discover eight texts that are candidates in the Playwright Competition at the Girona Temporada Alta Festival and are the best theatrical productions from the Instituto del Teatro and the Obrador de la Sala Beckett in Barcelona. These are pieces that are destined to fill theatres in future seasons'.

Sessions calendar

5 July:No es un adiósby Elisenda Guiu,with Miki Esparbé and Diana Torné

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12 July: El amor nos destrozará otra vez by Gerard Guix, with Mariona Ribas and Pep Ambròs

A 25-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman have a professional relationship that will end up turning into a romance. Or a heartbreak, depending on how you look at it. They say the worst thing that can happen in life is loving somebody who doesn't love you back.

19 July: Un armario moribundo by Jan Vilanova, with Carlos Cuevas and Eli Casanovas

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26 July: Súbita by Jordi Vallejo, with Santi Ricart and Mireia Llunell

Sometimes, on occasion, there's no need for you to find out that your whole life is a lie, as long as it's a white lie. A script by Jordi Vallejo and finalist at the last edition of the Playwright Competition of the Girona Temporada Alta Festival.

2 August: Instrucciones para gritar 'Aleluya' by Josep Julien, with Clara de Ramon and Marc Rius

The actor from Sabadell, Josep Julien, participant in one of the sessions of last year's 'Drama Nights', returns to this edition's series, but this time as an author, bringing with him a comic text with large doses of irony.

9 August: Tocar madre by Marta Barceló, with Marta Tricuera and Esperança Vegas

This script, by Marta Barceló, won at the last Playwight Competition of the Girona Temporada Alta Festival. The story starts with a rather improbable premise -a 62 year-old woman with an emotional disorder publishes an advert selling herself as a mother- but narrates a series of believable, everyday events that invoke the meaning of family and the desire to achieve a happy home life.

16 August: Breve historia del futuro/Autoficción by Marta Galán, with Oriol Berch and Ruth Garcia

Breve historia del futuro/Autoficción is a new writing project by Marta Galán, a playwright since 1999. The script presents a conversation between a father and his teenage son in a ravaged territory somewhere in Europe and in the middle of society in maximum economic and humanitarian alert.

23 August: Conpermiso by Roc Esquius, with Óscar Castellví and Isa Mateu

This script by Roc Esquius will close the 'Drama Nights' series. The script recounts an interview between the Health Advisor for the Government of Catalonia and a shaman. This encounter could be an explosive one.

Ticket price: €2 Free for attendees under 16 years of age and for members of Club CH4.

The Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation

Set up in 1992 by GAS NATURAL FENOSA and with a presence in every country where the company operates, the Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation is tasked with educating, training and informing society, as well as raising awareness about energy and environmental issues, and developing business and academic programmes, such as the First Export Programme.

It also develops Social Action programmes both nationally and internationally, by influencing particular initiatives aimed at alleviating energy vulnerability. It promotes initiatives in the cultural sphere, geared both at preserving and disseminating the historical heritage of the gas and electricity sector through the Gas Museum, the Bolarque Museum and the educational activities that it holds throughout Spain, and at educating and stimulating society artistically through the multi-disciplinary space in the Contemporary Art Museum.

The Gas Museum is a cultural centre combining a permanent exhibition with the organisation of temporary exhibitions, conferences, an educational programme for schools, activities for all audiences and film and music seasons.

Barcelona, 28 June 2017

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