Culture.
The main hall of the Barcelona Teatre Club Capitol is named Pepe Rubianes since yesterday, the first anniversary of the death of the comedian famous for his brilliant monologues. The hall hosted the last play of comic, Ethiopia's smile, which was suspended in April 2008 because of his illness. That and its relationship with the theater, the group Balan, owner of the room, discovered yesterday a plaque with his name, as he had announced after his death, who died of lung cancer at 61 years in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe city where he began his career on stage.
At yesterday's memorial ceremony attended Carmen Rubianes, sister of the actor, who announced that the April 23, the day of Sant Jordi, the Ara Llibres editorial published a book with his brother wrote poems inspired by Africa, where he spent long periods of his life. The book contains over 60 poems that speak of the special relationship "Galician-Catalan comic", as used to define itself with the African continent. The poems, written between 2006 and 2007 during his travels in Africa, are grouped into three stages of this journey: Ethiopia in 2006, Kenya in May 2006 and the return to Ethiopia in July 2007.
Matias de Catalunya Radio, which has Manel Fuentes, Rubianes dedicated to the program that was issued yesterday from the same theater. The special program was attended by singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat and comedians and Toni Soler Andreu Buenafuente, great friends of the actor.
