El Can Ventosa Cultural Center hosts «Cunyades» (Sisters-in-law), a comedy in Catalan written and directed by Ramon Grau which has already spent five seasons touring, filling theaters in Catalonia and Andorra, and is now landing on the island for the first time.
The function is the Saturday 26 2026 Septemberat 20 hours.
The play opens with the death of Manel Planas, founder of the well-known Impremta Planas i Fills printing company, whose business passes into the hands of his two sons, Pere and Pau, quiet brothers accustomed to getting along without conflict. This harmony is short-lived: as soon as their wives, Berta and Sara, enter the scene, the patriarch's absence becomes the perfect opportunity for the two sisters-in-law to wage a personal battle for control of the family business.
Ramon Grau, its author and director, is a screenwriter, filmmaker and photographer, as well as a political communication advisor and a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences since 1998.
Although his career also includes children's and young adult literature, he is the author of «Vali la Valenta"Cunyades," a novel required reading in many Catalan schools, is the work that has most established him as a playwright, with a text that relies on everyday situations taken to the extreme or with a satirical tone which turns the rivalry between the two sisters-in-law into the comic engine of the entire show.
The cast brings together four performers with extensive experience in theater and television: Jordi Ríos and Fermí Fernández They bring to life the brothers, caught between family loyalty and the pressure from their respective partners, while Mónica Pérez and Míriam TortosThey embody the sisters-in-law, building two dominant characters who sustain much of the stage conflict.
The combination of interpretive registers, with snappy dialogue and a steady paceThat is precisely what has made this comedy of errors in one of the biggest hits of the Catalan theater circuit in recent years.
A show designed for uncomplicated laughter, with that familiar comedy of rivalries and domestic ambitions that anyone who has, or has had, a sister-in-law knows so well.
