Written and directed by Mireia Gabilondo
18 OCT – 24 NOV 2024 Tuesday to Sunday at 18:00 | Accessible performances: 21 and 22 NOV 2024 SUB+AD+AA Meetings with the artistic team: 31 OCT 2024
Mireia Gabilondo
Karmele Aranburu, Aitziber Garmendia, Telmo Irureta
Fernando Bernués
David Bernués
Ana Turrillas
Centro Dramático Nacional and Tanttaka Teatroa
Acrónica Producciones
About the show
Three people, or rather, four:
LUCIA is severely depressed, so she lives vicariously through YOLDI, a wonderful young woman with intellectual disabilities.
YOLDI takes care of the plants of JOSÉ MANUEL, a prestigious psychotherapist who, due to cerebral palsy, is completely dependent. She only talks to her psychiatrist about a very intimate relationship she has with ALEXA, an artificial intelligence.
MARTINA, a psychiatrist, a bit misanthropic, can’t take it anymore. She can’t deal with life. She can’t help her daughter Lucia. Will she throw in the towel? Maybe.
Of course, none of the three, sorry, four, knows anything about what’s happening to the others, or about their delusions and secrets; but one thing is certain: the best thing that’s happened to them in this life has been to know one another and for their paths to cross.
Director’s note
¿Sabes que las flores de plástico nunca han vivido, verdad?
If the answer is yes, that’s not so bad!
We discuss the different kinds of loneliness, the different disabilities, the masks we wear to keep living, mental illnesses, heartbreak, old age, suicide, depression, and the courage to live in a body that doesn’t move, but with a mind that never stops. And psychological therapies, lies, traumas and caring for plants, whether plastic or not, deep relationships with Artificial Intelligence… and a few other things.
But we’re doing so through comedy. Through very tragic comedy at times, so tragic that there is no other choice but to laugh.
It’s a comedy of tangles and lies, in order to talk about life’s problems and the ways out.
Mireia Gabilondo
Mireia Gabilondo
Karmele Aranburu, Aitziber Garmendia, Telmo Irureta
Fernando Bernués
David Bernués
Ana Turrillas
Centro Dramático Nacional and Tanttaka Teatroa
Acrónica Producciones
She is one of the members of Tanttaka Teatroa and La Tentación Producciones.
With extensive experience in the world of direction and performing, she is one of the most prominent figures in the stage and audiovisual arts in the Basque Country, where she has enjoyed success in the worlds of theatre, dance, cinema and television.
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In theatre, her directorial endeavours include her latest productions Sexberdinak, Un Viaje a América, Gauekoak (Kukai), and Último tren a Treblinka. Highlights include the plays El Florido Pensil and El Florido Pensil niñas, co-directed with Fernando Bernués. Her most recent acting gigs include Del color de la leche, Mi hijo solo camina un poco más lento, Los papeles de Sísifo, Deje su mensaje después de la señal, La casa de la llave, Muxua, La calma mágica, El hijo del acordeonista-Soinujolearen semea, and more.
In cinema, she has been in films such as Kutzidazu bidea, Ixabel, Mugaldegoak, Amaren Eskuak and Erlauntza-Enjambre, and played in hits like El hijo del acordeonista.
On television (EITB), she has worked as an actress in series like Jaun ta Jabe, Hertzainak, Mi querido Klikowsky, Martin, Mugaldekoak, and Altsasu. In some of them, she also doubled as director and scriptwriter.
© Mikel Martínez
