Rachel Arieff's First Monologue in Catalan at Unusual Project.

Rachel Arieff, we'll let you know now, confesses that she's doing this show "out of pure greed". Because, since she arrived in Barcelona, ​​she's spent many years and thousands of euros trying to learn Catalan and, after all the time and money invested, she wants to make the most of it. So she's done a show in Catalan, biting and irreverent, called Catalunya Triomfant and, yes, it's the artist's first show in this language. Will you miss it? On September 4, at Unusual Project.

It is one of the first performances of the show, but it certainly won't be the last, because this artist doesn't stand still for a moment. We met her at the old Sidecar club, with some Antikaraoke shows that ended up creating a school. But she is an actress and, after having had fun not long ago with the show Anormala, she is now launching into acting in Catalan.

The show is produced by the Institut Català de les Anormalarts (C.I.A.) and the Feas Artes de Catalunya (F.A.C.), responsible for the show by the one who defines herself as "a new Catalan", ready to show us all that, although we think that Catalans are losers and that things have gone badly for us, in reality we are great winners. This is said by an artist who, born in the USA, declares herself to be a representative of "the most powerful empire in decline on Earth".

And also of real stories, a very particular version of the habanera "El meu avi", of witty observations about Catalonia and the character of Catalans. It is told by a woman who comes from a country that, depending on how you look at it, could be the opposite of Catalonia.

Do you want to appreciate the advantages of being Catalan again? Maybe you need a new perspective that, projected on Catalonia, makes you aware of how lucky we are to live in a society like ours.

If you want to rediscover your “Catalan-ness", come and hear Rachel Arieff in the monologue Catalunya Triomfant...

Publication date:

Tuesday, 02 September 2025