TWENTY-NINE, in capital letters

PalmaTwenty-nine editions of Teatre de Barra are many, almost very many. Therefore, it deserves that the sequence number goes in capital letters, but it also happens that day after day they fill to the brim the chairs that surround the counters of the different venues where the different stories unfold. Stories that for the occasion speak of the eighties, and it must be said that a high percentage of regular spectators of the event were already there. Five plays five.

Berlín 89, by Alfonso Morillas, directed by Xavi Núñez and performed by Laura Andújar and Héctor Seoane, which takes place on December 31, 1989. A chance encounter. "We are about to close" is a resource that surely occupies the first place on the "bar" podium. Here ends any repetitive possibility. Morillas, with two actors with as much chemistry as talent, and a direction that makes one sorry not to know more about both protagonists, creates in us the feeling of wanting it to last a little longer, because with them you never know if it is a comedy or what, with a bittersweet aftertaste and a play of glances that makes the silences more explicit than the words. Flawless.

Sa gàbia enganadora, written and directed by Bernat Molina, performed by Joan Manel Vadell and Emili Gené. When the discourse becomes a homily, it is not easy for the humor to have consistency. When at every moment you see the irons that hold the structure, you lose the essential capacity for surprise of a piece with these characteristics.

No controles, by Pablo Varela, author and director, performed by Lina Mira and Pau Pascual. Discourse, we start badly, convoluted, about whether there was more permissiveness in the eighties or if we were a bit too sexist. It neither remains clear nor does it manage to awaken any interest at all. I am left with the comic side of Lina Mira, who nails her character.

Jingles, written and directed by David Mataró and performed by Marina Nicolau and Joan Vila, another pair to be framed. From the first moment, this musical-advertising journey through some of the brands and products that marked an era, and some still endure today, gives no respite. From the first moment you don't stop laughing, even with applause between the different discoveries of a couple who want to live from music and, therefore, have to go through the wringer of music for commercials. I can read up to here, but let no one miss it.

Wall&Cass, written and directed by Marga Arrom, starring Miquel Àngel Torrens and Carme Serna as the protagonists of this love story between two devices that by now seem to belong to the Pleistocene. An idea as brilliant as it is witty, with moments that become a burst of laughter, although it might need a little more tightening of the ties.