Pepa Plana celebrates the National Culture Award, which recognizes her professional career

The clown Pepa Plana received with great satisfaction the news of the recognition made public last Wednesday, April 16, by the CONCA for the National Culture Award.

Plana (Valls, 1965) has celebrated an award that recognizes her long professional career and has linked her to the entire profession. “When I started clowning for adults, it was strange, and I was also a woman, I worked alone… And in a way I feel responsible for having made the profession of clowning visible, the award is a recognition”. The clown defends her profession: “if the profession of clowning did not exist, it would have to be invented”, she says, and recalls that it exists and has existed all over the world and throughout history. “In all cultures there is the figure of the clown, who makes you laugh, makes you think, is fragile, pathetic… who holds up a mirror to society that makes you see as a spectator that everything that happens to him happens to us all; this is what we have to do”.

The shows that have marked Pepa Plana’s career, since her debut with De Pe a Pa, have been Giulietta, Hatzàrdia, L’Atzar, Penèlope and Èxode, four of which are still on tour. Pepa Plana has participated in numerous festivals throughout Europe and Latin America and directed the five editions of the Festival de Pallasses d’Andorra. The clown is currently preparing two new productions, one will premiere this summer and the other during 2015.