‘Extraordinary Measures’, a comedy about the cost of dying

From May 28 arrives at the Borràs Theater Extraordinary measuresthe new stage proposal of Carmen Marfà and Yago alonso. Responsible for titles such as Sheep, Fine skin or Its presencethe two playwrights now resumes a text written in 2020 and was truncated by the pandemic: Instructions for burying a parent. They do it with a renewed cast consisting of for Mercè Arànega, Francesc Ferrer and Mia Sala-Patau.

The play, a comedy with black humor and naturalism, is based on a situation as absurd as it is tragic: a family cannot pay the father’s funeral. In the face of the difficulty, Son Toni-with the complicity of his daughter Emma-will devise an unusual plan to bury him on his own, dodging the costs of funeral homes. “If it is already very difficult to pay for life, how should we have money to pay death?” The authors are questioned.

A humorous reflection on death

With this approach, Extraordinary measures It focuses on the funeral business and economic inequality, but it does so from humor and humanism. “This is a work that reflects, always in a humorous way, that it is difficult to die; of the incredible business behind the funerals and how almost all of us ‘go through the Aro’,” say Marfà and Alonso.

History also addresses topics such as dignity, family legacy, rituals and farewell need. Through three generations who face death from different perspectives, the work invites to think about how we say goodbye to our loved ones and how this varies according to the life moment of each one.

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