Companyia de comediants La Baldufa
La Companyia de Comediants La Baldufa, founded in Lleida in 1996, has spent the past 28 years creating high-quality, innovative performing arts shows for all audiences, with a special focus on family-friendly theatre.
In 2020, La Baldufa became the first and only Catalan company (so far) to receive the Spanish National Performing Arts Award for Children and Youth, granted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports. The jury praised their committed trajectory towards transformative family theatre, their “conception of the spectator as a capable, critical and reflective being regardless of age”, and their ability to create scenographic universes with rich poetic and visual language.
The company has also received recognition at numerous national and international festivals, including FETEN, the most important family theatre festival in Spain, where it has earned awards for best production, performance, artistic proposal, and more.
La Baldufa is known for a diverse and complex theatre that is constantly exploring new ground. Their work blends disciplines and languages, with a strong visual creation component and a deep social commitment. They have performed in more than 20 countries, always with the intent to provoke questions rather than provide answers, and to offer a transformative perspective through scenic language.
Firm believers in the power of theatre to raise awareness and foster a more just, inclusive and equal society, they place great emphasis on the creative process, supporting artist residencies, open rehearsals and spaces for dialogue between artists and audiences.
Their current repertoire includes productions like La faula de l’esquirol, Amal, La nena dels pardals, Bye Bye Confetti, Safari and Monstres.
Fantasmes de guerra
Residence September 2025
A “La Baldufa-style” show: entertaining, humorous and full of the company’s symbolic language.
Fantasmes de Guerra (War Ghosts) is La Baldufa’s new show, directed by Lucía Miranda, set to premiere in October 2025 at Fira Mediterrània.
The starting point was the book Érem feres (We Were Beasts, Pagès Editors, 2023) by historian Oriol Riart, which compiles personal diaries of combatants from both sides during the Spanish Civil War. While the show is not a direct adaptation, the research helped deepen the portrayal of individual experiences, resulting in a dramaturgy that brings this reality —often unknown to today’s children— closer through a human and approachable lens.
The story follows three lifelong friends who grow up sharing games, dreams and bonds. But the outbreak of the war tears their friendship apart: two join one side, and the third, the opposite. One of them dies, and the survivors carry the burden of blame and resentment forever.
Using shadows, retro projectors, fabrics, wood and live music, the piece moves between past and present, memory and silence, humour and sorrow — inviting us to reflect on the absurdity of war, the wounds still open, and the urgency to seek reconciliation before it’s too late.
