Teatre Grec
The Teatre Grec—known in Spanish as Teatro Griego—may sound Greek, but it was built for modern Barcelona on Montjuïc, not by ancient Greeks. It was designed and constructed in 1929 for the Exposició Internacional de Barcelona, with architecture in a Noucentisme idiom by Ramon Reventós i Farrarons and Nicolás María Rubió Tudurí, inspired by the plan of the theatre of Epidaurus (Epidauro). Set in an old quarry, the venue uses the cut stone wall as part of the stage backdrop, making the landscape itself functional. The enclosure covers 460 m² and can hold about 1,900 spectators. After early performances—Margarita Xirgu played Electra by Sophocles in 1932—the theatre fell out of use after the Civil War, then reopened in 1952 with Edipo rey. Closed again between 1969 and 1972, it returned to the city in 1976, when the first Festival Griego launched and established the tradition of summer programming. …
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