El Principi d’Arquimedes (versió 2025)

Jordi, the coach of a children’s swimming group, hugs and kisses one of the children, who is crying because he is afraid of the water and doesn’t want to take his back float off. Jordi’s gesture, however, will cause complaints from some of the parents and give rise to a spiral of mistrust that will bring to the surface all kinds of suspicions, prejudices and fears.

El Principi d’Arquimedes is a play about human relations and contemporary fears. The work was produced with a creation grant from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (Catalan Letters Institute) and won the 36th Born Prize for Theatre.

The text was revised in 2025 on the occasion of a new production in Catalonia and some changes were introduced that were considered appropriate a decade and a half after the first production.