5 days Ago By Santi Fondevila
History has been told for many years with the big headlines and the most influential protagonists, usually male. But the true story that truly describes our world is the sum of short stories of quite ordinary women and men with ordinary lives, but crucial to understanding the future of society. These were the two girls from the textile colonies of Catalonia in the 1930s, voiced by Maria Caselles and Andrea Potella Fontcuberta in , in a play by Anna Ricart Codina and directed by Ferran Utzet at the Maldà.
And they were, they are and they will be the midwives of , where the two actresses, the playwright, and the director meet again. A proposal that brings the stage closer , which tells of a midwife who philosophizes in cold, dark Iceland for many days throughout the year. She is a midwife at the Reykjavik hospital, the daughter and maid of midwives, who lives in the apartment of her great-aunt, with whom she shares a vocation and name, and whom we meet at home days before Christmas, when in Iceland the day lasts no more than six hours and snow and storms are guaranteed.
But if her relationship with her meteorologist sister, with a plumber, and a lost tourist describe her daily life, it is the voice of the great-aunt's spirit that brings reflections as tender and profound as they are funny, like the relationship between potatoes and human beings because they grow in the dark or are discovered. A role that Rosa Renom brings with all her great talent. Ferran Utzet's staging avoids realism, but it remains realistic and achieves the objective of conveying the author's poetics with the simplicity and naturalness of small great stories, with the overwhelming presence of a harsh and beautiful nature and warm and affectionate performances.
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