This Saturday, 6th of July, marks the 25th anniversary of the death of the actor, director and playwright

The Consell de Mallorca remembers the actor, director and playwright Xesc Forteza by installing a commemorative plaque in Palma’s Teatre Principal. This Saturday, 6th July, the 25th anniversary of his death, the plaque will be unveiled in a small ceremony in the Sala de Tertulias, with the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés; the vice-president and councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, and the director of the Teatre Principal, Miquel Martorell.

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The Consell de Mallorca remembers Xesc Forteza by installing a plaque in the Teatre Principal

Also present at the remembrance ceremony will be different professionals from the performing arts and some of Xesc Forteza’s stage colleagues, such as Joan Bibiloni, Joan Carles Bestard, Joan Monse and Joan Bonet.

Francesc Forteza Forteza, better known by his stage name of Xesc Forteza, was born in 1926 and from a very young age, he was already on stage in school performances. In 1947 he joined the Artis company, where he worked until 1967, when he founded his own company with which he premiered some fifty productions, with some legendary titles such as Majórica and Es viatge del tio capellà, among many others. From this point on, he followed a meteoric career until he became one of the most popular actors and playwrights of the 20th century in Mallorca.

However, his career was not limited to the premiere of comedy and vaudeville with his company. With Los Valldemossa and Margaluz, he toured numerous European countries such as Denmark, Germany, England, Iceland… He also starred in Molière’s L’Avar (1987), in a production by the Centro Dramático de las Islas Baleares, and La gran ilusión, by the Centro Dramático de la Generalitat de Cataluña, a play that ran for over a hundred days at the Teatre Romea in Barcelona.