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Marlene Tukur is a German-American photographer ba

Marlene Tukur is a German-American photographer based in Barcelona. She studied photography at Parsons School of Design and works primarily with film, drawn to its intimacy, imperfection, and quiet sense of memory.

Having spent much of her life moving between places and cultures, she is drawn to spaces where reality begins to feel uncertain—where the everyday takes on something theatrical, and the staged can feel strangely intimate or real.

Growing up with a father who worked as an actor across theatre and film and a mother who worked as an emergency-room nurse, her work has in some ways developed between these two worlds: one rooted in performance and fabrication, the other in immediacy and lived experience.

She is interested in the thin line between what is performed and what is genuine, and in the ambiguity that emerges when the two become difficult to distinguish.

@still.elsewhere.here

Marlene is our photographer in the Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams, directed by Kaitlin Kemp @kaitlinkemp this November 2026 at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn

Starring
Javier Belay @javierbelay as Felice
Madalena Pelouro @pelouromadalena as Clare

Daniel Gavilovski @dangav03 as AD

Tennessee Williams. Born 1911, Mississippi. The wr

Tennessee Williams. Born 1911, Mississippi. The writer behind A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — the plays that built modern American theatre's idea of what a family can survive.

By the late 1960s he was writing something stranger. The Two-Character Play premiered in London in 1967, revised repeatedly over the following years — restaged in New York as Out Cry in 1973, finalised under its original title in 1975. Two actors, siblings, abandoned by their touring company, performing a play about themselves for an audience that may or may not exist.

Williams called it his most beautiful work since Streetcar. He never stopped revising it.

We open it in November.

The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams, directed by Kaitlin Kemp @kaitlinkemp . Playing every Wednesday and Thursday at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn this November 2026.

Starring
Javier Belay @javierbelay as Felice
Madalena Pelouro @pelouromadalena as Clare

Daniel Gavilovski as AD @dangav03

Madalena Pelouro stars as Clare in the Two-Charact

Madalena Pelouro stars as Clare in the Two-Character Play production, written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kaitlin Kemp @kaitlinkemp, November 2026 at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn

Madalena @pelouromadalena is a Portuguese actor working across theatre, film and voice.

She trained at the University for the Creative Arts in London before transferring to the Institute of the Arts Barcelona, completing her final year in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University.

Her stage work spans the classical and the modern — Hamlet and Agamemnon alongside Blue Stockings, Party Time and A Night Out. She works fluently in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Javier Belay @javierbelay plays her brother, Felice

Javier Belay stars as Felice in the Two-Character

Javier Belay stars as Felice in the Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams, directed by Kaitlin Kemp @kaitlinkemp this November 2026 at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn

Javier Belay @javierbelay is an Argentine-born actor and multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona. He trained at the El Duende Theatre School under Agustín Alezzo, Emiliano Delucchi and Rubén Viani, and later developed his on-camera technique with Lucy Lennox, Marcos Franz and Christian Márquez.

His film credits include Mi Amiga Eva (Cesc Gay), Yo No Soy Esa (María Ripoll), El 47 (Marcel Barrena) and Saben Aquell (David Trueba). He also starred in the short film What If, an official selection at the Lift-Off Global Network Sessions 2026. On television, he has appeared in Yo Adicto (Javier Giner), Élite (Season 8), Mano de Hierro and Dos Tumbas — as well as the international productions Costa!! (Netherlands) and BROS II (Israel).

On stage, Javier has worked across play and musical formats, with credits including Company (Stephen Sondheim), Quizás Hoy (Kander & Ebb), Frida, entre lo absurdo y lo fugaz and ¿Y si fueran tus últimos días?

He is bilingual in English and Spanish — native Argentine and peninsular neutral — speaks Catalan fluently, and trained as a singer and pianist.

Madalena Pelouro @pelouromadalena plays his sister Clare

Daniel Gavilovski, Assistant Director of The Two-C

Daniel Gavilovski, Assistant Director of The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams, directed by Kaitlin Kemp @kaitlinkemp . Playing every Wednesday and Thursday at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn this November 2026.

Starring
Javier Belay @javierbelay as Felice
Madalena Pelouro @pelouromadalena as Clare

Daniel @dangav03 is an author, playwright and archaeologist, raised in Ireland. His writing has appeared in The New Critic and The Metropolitan Review. He writes for Unreal Press, which published his debut book, Carbon Pages.

Introducing Kaitlin Kemp as the director of The Tw

Introducing Kaitlin Kemp as the director of The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams playing this November 2026, both Wednesday and Thursday evenings at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn

Starring
Javier Belay @javierbelay as Felice
Madalena Pelouro @pelouromadalena as Clare
Daniel Gavilovski as AD @dangav03

Kaitlin @kaitlinkemp is a director and drama educator, a graduate of Queen’s University in Canada. In addition to teaching and directing, she collaborates with theatre makers across Europe to devise original work. She also trained with Frantic Assembly in London in 2022.

Recent directing credits include Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (2026) and Gurney’s The Dining Room (2024) along with a numerous large scale youth musicals with Spotlight Productions.

Her work reimagines classic and established plays through bold, contemporary staging, making familiar texts feel newly discovered. She is driven by a belief in collective creation, where ideas are developed in the rehearsal room and storytelling emerges through shared exploration. Across her work, she aims to honour text while creating theatre that invites deeper discovery of self, others, and the world in which we live.

Before you see the play, you see the poster. Henr

Before you see the play, you see the poster.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did not design theatre posters because he was asked to. He designed them because the lithograph — the large-format colour print that appeared on the walls of Paris in the 1890s — was a new medium, and he understood it better than anyone. His posters for the Moulin Rouge and the Ambassadeurs did not illustrate the performance. They translated it into a visual language of their own. The poster as an artwork in its own right.

Saul Bass understood the same thing about cinema. His title sequences and film posters — Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder, The Man with the Golden Arm — reduced a complex narrative to a single graphic idea. A spiralling form. A dismembered arm. A jagged line. The most precise possible reduction of a complex thing to a single image. Bass was not decorating the film. He was making a visual argument about what the film was.

Paula Scher brought the same rigour to institutional identity. Her work for the Public Theater in New York — bold, typographically aggressive, printed in the visual language of 19th century wood type — argued that a public theatre should look like the city it serves. Not polished. Not corporate. Alive.

The best theatre graphic design does not announce the production.

It enacts it.

🎬 Theatre & Design · Poster Design. Link in bio.

#TheatreLiteracy #GraphicDesign #SaulBass #PaulaScher #ToulouseLautrec #PosterDesign #TheatreDesign #BlueBookTheatre

Design Lead Vera Valeeva for the 2026-2027 season.

Design Lead Vera Valeeva for the 2026-2027 season.

Vera is a Barcelona-based graphic designer with an international background and a strong interest in fine and performing arts. She graduated in Graphic Design and Innovation from Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, after one year of coursing Advertising and Public Relations at the International University of Catalonia (UIC). She also spent a year in New York on an exchange program at Mercy College, studying Graphic Design and Animation.

She currently works in the Marketing Department at El Periódico, which forms part of Prensa Ibérica, where she develops creative projects across print and digital media. Her experience at the newspaper has brought her into close contact with the theatre and entertainment industry, working on projects involving organisations and venues such as Grup Focus, Teatre Grec and Liceu, among others.

With Russian roots, an international education and experience living and studying in Barcelona and New York, Vera is fluent in four languages: Russian, English, Spanish and Catalan. Her artistic interests span theatre, and cinema, as well as graphic design, illustration, branding and visual communication.

She is particularly interested in the way visual language can connect people, ideas and cultures, and in exploring the space where design, communication and the performing arts meet.

Find her work here-
@vvaleeva99

Every theatre production starts as an idea and end

Every theatre production starts as an idea and ends as a live event. What happens in between is the work of a producer — and it is nothing like most people imagine.

This series goes behind the scenes of professional theatre production. What a producer actually does and why the job is more complex than anyone in the audience ever realises. The extraordinary range of personalities, disciplines, and temperaments that have to align to make a single production work. The full timeline from first concept to opening night. And what can — and regularly does — go wrong, and why theatre people wouldn't have it any other way.

Four short videos for anyone curious about how the work gets made.

Part of the Blue Book Theatre Literacy series.

Jackie Slipper, producer. British-French, now ba

Jackie Slipper, producer.

British-French, now based in Spain, Jacqueline Slipper began participating in plays at school in France. She went on to read Law in the UK, making theatre throughout her degree. By graduation she had produced more than ten shows, spanning large-scale musicals, modern classics, and original work.

She joins Blue Book Theatre Company for the 2026-27 season.

The 2026–2027 season begins! New season and new t

The 2026–2027 season begins!

New season and new team behind it. A new producer, a new social media lead, and reinforcements from Spanish Gap Year @spanish.gap.year and Erasmus @erasmus.plus.spain joining the company this year!

Details to follow.

In the meantime, check out our Theatre Literacy series on YouTube #ʟɪɴᴋɪɴʙɪᴏ

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSzjgZNxpGm4

#BlueBookTheatre #Barcelona

Laurence Olivier had stage fright so bad he begged

Laurence Olivier had stage fright so bad he begged his co-stars not to look at him. The fear never goes away — great actors just learn to walk through it anyway. 🎭

Full video on YouTube (link in bio) — The Bravery of an Actor

#theatre #acting #stagefright #actors #bluebooktheatre

Theatre doesn't tidy up human complexity. It puts

Theatre doesn't tidy up human complexity. It puts it in the light. And that's why a great play can make you feel less alone. 🎭

Full video on YouTube (link in bio) — The Bravery of an Actor, Ep 3.

with @elevenlabs.io_

#theatre #storytelling #humanexperience #acting #theatrelife #performance #bluebooktheatre #barcelona

A superhero isn’t someone without fear. It’s someo

A superhero isn’t someone without fear. It’s someone who goes toward it anyway — because something else matters more. That’s what actors do. Every night. 🎭

Full 5-part series on YouTube (link in bio) — Why Actors Are Superheroes. COMING SOON

with @elevenlabs.io_

#theatre #acting #actors #theatrelife #performance #englishtheatrebarcelona

Part 2 of 12 from the series "Theatre Literacy".

Part 2 of 12 from the series "Theatre Literacy".

Most people think rehearsals are just actors running through their lines over and over. They're not. A rehearsal process is one of the most complex creative journeys in any art form.

#theatreeducation #learntheatre #theatreforbeginners #theatreliteracy #behindthescene

with @elevenlabs.io_

Blue Book is stepping into Act II for the 2026-202

Blue Book is stepping into Act II for the 2026-2027 season.

We're currently working with collaborators to create design-forward material with a clearer artistic vision for the near future.

Also, stay tuned for our new mini-series on "Theatre Literacy" to keep you entertained mid-season. 😊

#theatreeducation #learntheatre #theatreforbeginners #theatreliteracy #behindthescenes #barcelona #barcelonatheatre #englishtheatrebarcelona

Thank you for your talent and generosity, Mattia S

Thank you for your talent and generosity, Mattia Sedda, and for the incredible collaboration with In Other Words, written by Matthew Seager.

Mattia Sedda @mattiasedda_ is an actor, clown, theatre director, and photographer from Sardinia.

Performance has been central to his life from an early age. Mentored by the founder of Prima del Teatro in Italy, he went on to train in London — joining the National Youth Theatre, graduating from East 15 Acting School, and studying at École Philippe Gaulier.

His photography @mattsedda_ph grew out of that same London period, beginning with street work and headshots for fellow actors before becoming a career in its own right. Since 2020, he has worked across headshots, theatre photography, and production imagery for theatre, comedy, and circus. His collaborations include Soho Theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, Greenwich Theatre, Jacksons Lane, and multiple Edinburgh Fringe venues, as well as performers such as Natalie Palamides, Julia Masli, and Josh Glanc, and companies including The 7 Fingers and Motionhouse. His work has also extended to festivals including La Mercè and Barcelona Fringe.

As a clown — a direction his teachers suggested with some persistence — Mattia trained with Philippe Gaulier and Spymonkey. His debut solo show, CHOIN, directed by Aitor Basauri, has played sold-out runs at the Museum of Comedy in London and in Italy, and has been presented at Edinburgh Fringe (2024 and 2025), Vault Festival, and Labyrinth Festival. Chortle named it one of the “10 Clowns to See at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe.”

As a screen actor, he has appeared in Hapless (Amazon Prime, Season 2) and is cast in an upcoming feature film.

Directed by Jonathan Bella Luto @jonathanbellaluto . Playing at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn and El Retiro, Sitges @elretirositges this April 2026.

Photos by the talented @mattsedda_ph

Arthur played by
Bruin Chan @bruin_chan_actor

Jane played by
Chrystele Alix @chrys.tales

Assistant Direction
Milo Zrob @miwizrob

Crew @kayla.s_07

Sound Engineer @gasparfuzzsound

Dance Coordinator
Rober Gomez @titoroberotto

@catalannewsacn & @bruin_chan_actor & @teatreneubc

@catalannewsacn & @bruin_chan_actor & @teatreneubcn thank you so very much! What a cool opportunity for everyone involved. In Other Words is written by Matthew Seager directed by Jonathan Bella Luto @jonathanbellaluto . Playing at Teatreneu @teatreneubcn and El Retiro, Sitges @elretirositges this April 2026.

Photos by the talented @mattsedda_ph

Arthur played by
Bruin Chan @bruin_chan_actor

Jane played by
Chrystele Alix @chrys.tales

Assistant Direction
Milo Zrob @miwizrob

Crew @kayla.s_07

Sound Engineer @gasparfuzzsound

Dance Coordinator
Rober Gomez @titoroberotto

Special thanks to @spanish.gap.year ❤️

#englishtheatrebarcelona #bluebooktheatre

We are incredibly proud and honoured to share that

We are incredibly proud and honoured to share that Blue Book Theatre Company has been chosen as a winner of the 2026 Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards @corporatelivewire. This recognition means a great deal to us — it represents the heart that everyone has put into every single production, and a celebration of what we believe international theatre can do for the city and for the humans that participate.

We have been chosen for the following:

“-Award-winning creative impact -recognised for excellence, demonstrating strong credibility and a clear presence within the theatre landscape.

-Diverse, international collaboration - brings together multicultural talent to deliver fresh, globally influenced productions.

-Bold, contemporary storytelling - produces thought-provoking, modern work with a strong emphasis on collaboration and artistic development.

The Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards is an annual international programme celebrating the very best businesses and organisations across the world — those who go above and beyond in their field, driven by passion, creativity, and a commitment to excellence.

Winners are selected purely on merit, assessed by a dedicated research team who look beyond the numbers to understand what truly makes an organisation special — their story, their values, and the impact they have.”

#englishtheatrebarcelona

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