Toni Cabré

Mataró, 1957

Playwright and engineer. Since his first work, Computer Love (1980), he has been interested in technology, as made evident in Oh bit! (Ciutat d’Alcoi Prize 1985), Oi? (1992) and Navegants (1999, Crítica Serra d’Or Prize 2000). With Els camaleons també paguen (Salvador Reynaldos Prize 1984) he started using the dream world as a theme, which he continued in Viatge a Califòrnia (Josep Ametller Prize 1997). His first professional premiere was Estrips (Joan Santamaria Prize 1988), while Històries d’amor (1993) inaugurated the 2000-01 season at the Sala Tallers (TNC). In 1990 he wrote Treva and adapted La metamorfosi. In the year 1996 he published Overbooking and in 2000 he again won the Ciutat d’Alcoi Prize with L’efecte 2000, a work on labour instability, a theme he would continue developing in Iglú (2006), on early retirement, and Demà coneixeràs en Klein (2008), on mobbing. He has also published the tragicomedy Teoria de catàstrofes (2004, Crítica Serra d’Or Prize 2005) and the short plays: Fantasies (2002), Obra inacabada (2003), Rosebud Hotel (2005), Ningú (2006) and Vladimir (2008).