Joan Pera

I’ll be very busy with my performances this summer. I’ll be touring all around Catalonia performing L’art de fer riure, a compendium of 50 years of career in which I attempt to explain why I make people laugh, when I really shouldn’t. The tour will also be a kind of holiday trip for me. I like to feel part of the fun during the fiestas in the towns that I visit and to watch people having fun and to have fun with them. While I’m on tour I’ll have two or three days off that I’ll take advantage of to go to the beach in Cadaqués, where I’ll be visiting some friends. To get away from the heat I head up to Vall d’Aran, but it usually turns out that when I do that I have to perform in Amposta the next day and my wife gets angry because I make her rush to the other end of the country. In August, I’ll be alternating performances with going to the beach in Cadaqués and my beloved hometown, Mataró. In September I’ll begin rehearsals for the play L’Avare by Molière, which will be opening at the end of the year at Teatre Goya. Since what I like to do most is to perform, I’ll take advantage of the summer to do everyday things that I also like such as eating salads with tomatoes and onions, hanging pictures in my house, accompanied by my wife shouting at me, watering the plants and trying to stop them from dying from the heat, and going for walks. I’m also an avid reader: right now I’m reading L’enigma Dalí, by Màrius Carol, which I’m finding thrilling. I’d also like to find the time to reread Incerta glòria by Joan Sales. In summer I like to spend a week or two with all of my family, my six children, their wives and girlfriends, and my grandchildren, because during the rest of the year they’re scattered all around the world and we can’t get to see each other as much as we’d like.