‘In front and back’, a veteran classic of the mood of the billboard
There are works that never go out of fashion, classics that have returned to the billboard for a few years. This 2025 returns to Barcelona one of the most emblematic comedies of recent years, Ahead and behindoriginally titled Boys off and written in 1982 for Michael Fraayn. Eight years after its last performance in Barcelona this crazy montage returns to the Borràs Theater billboard with a new cast, version of Paco Look and direction ofAlexander Herold.
Misunderstandings in front and behind the stage in a double fiction that narrates like a troupe Of lousy actors tries to set up a play. This comedy has the endorsement of the most 12 million people who have seen it since its premiere in London: it has been translated into 28 languages and has been represented in 50 different countries. Has also been taken to the big screen under the title Boys Offdirected by Peter Bogdanovichwith Michael CaineChristopher Reeve or Carol Burnett betweenothers.
A comedy with a lot of history
‘Noises off’ at Lyric Theater Hammersmith in London, 1982
The relationship of this comedy with the Barcelona billboard is very curious: the story begins in 1985 in Madrid. That year a young Catalan company called Tricycle triumphed with the tour of one of his first shows Success. After the performance, the three actors were surprised on the street by a young theater director, Alexander Heroldwho invited them to see From right and inside outa work by Michael Fraayn that was rehearsing .al Theater Alcázar with actors like Amparo Baró, Joaquín Kremel or Josep Maria Pou.
Poster of ‘Del Remècho y Al on the reverse’ at the Alcázar Theater in Madrid, 1985
Tricycle was very clear: that could succeed on the Barcelona billboard. In a few months it occurred The first Catalan version. Helped the director look for a casting and the year 1985 it Condal Theater first housed the premiere of Ahead and behind with a great cast headed by Juanjo Puigcorbé, Mario Gas, Montse Guid or Fine riversamong others. After an 8 -month season, the work went on tour in Catalonia and Spain. 315,000 viewers endorsed the success of this first adventure.
The first cast of ‘In front and back’ at the Condal Theater, 1985
The year 1996 The work returned to the Victory theaterin a new translation of the Paco Look. The success was so overwhelming that a few weeks later he moved to the Goya Theater. Mercè Comes, Abel folk, Joan Cross, Roser battle, Maria Lanau or Marta Calvóamong others, this time were the most well -known faces of the distribution. After 5 months of success, about 440,000 spectators saw her.
La Vanguardia announces on 20/01/1996 the return of comedy to the Victoria Theater
The year 2002 The play was re -operated in London and New York and coinciding with the success of the company again, again to recover this great comedy from the billboard. For the first time it premieres in the Borràs Theaterwith a successful subsequent tour, and with veteran actors who repeated as Abel folk and Mercy Commas and with new additions such as Pep Flat, Enric Majó, Mireia Portas, Santi Ibáñez, Rosa Andreu or Alex Casanovas.
The cast of the 2002 version, at the Borràs Theater
The year 2010 It was the last time we enjoyed Ahead and behind. Was, again, on the billboard of the Borràs Theater. Paco Look update comedy again with a new direction directed again by the same Alexander Herold. They repeated Pep Plains and Enric Majó and they joined Rose Gamiz, Anna Barrachina, Mónica Pérez, Carles Martínez, Miquel Sitjar or Dafnis Balduz.
A scene from the play performed in 2010, at the Borràs Theater
8 years later, at the 2018the veteran work returns, for the third time in a row to the Blurry. With solvent names like Lazy Bertran, Agnese Search, Jordi Díaz, Carme Pla, Miquel Sitjar or Lluís Villanueva.
Production of 2018, at the Borràs Theater.
This 2025 the work, which has been celebrating its 40th anniversary this year since its original premiere and will be on the poster at the Teatre Borràs from September 25 to January 11. With a totally renewed and updated montage, the new production brings together the new stage of the best comic actors and actresses on the current landscape such as they are Jordi Banacolocha, Agnès Busquets, Jordi Díaz, Alex Ferré, Meritxell Huertas, Mònica Macfer, Rocío Madrid, Octavian climbs and Jordi Vidal.
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