I foster for the lives we will never live

The fomo (Fear of Missing Outthat is, ‘fear of losing things’) has become one of the great evils of our time. We feel encouraged when we decide to stay at home and miss a great party, when we see the photos of a dinner that we have not been able to attend or when we run out of tickets for the theatrical premiere of the season. In the world of social media, hyperproductive capitalism and of If you want, you canit is a crime to miss anything.

Genís Lama and Anna Cerveró

But we can also feel foster in a more existentialist plan. We can distinguish us to think of all the things we will never do, in the lives we will never live. The actor Genís Lama He felt this gap when, a couple of years ago, he lost one of his best friends due to suicide. From this harsh real experience, he has written They protect me the starsa co -directed and co -authored show with Anna Cerverówhich can be seen in the Fenix Room from September 3 to 21.

Self -fiction is very present in our theatrical landscape, there are those who say that even too much, but lama claim it. It is when the experience itself becomes universal that self-fiction makes sense, says Lama: “The theatrical process allows for difficult situations from fiction, letting go of pain and transform it into art.” He himself embodies an alter ego that has to cross a mourning, accompanied by the subtle presence of Cerveró, “a kind of voice of the consciousness that serves as a comic counterpoint, to reduce the intensity of the speech.”

A look at mourning from science fiction

The show plays with elements typical of science fiction, through resources such as temporary jumps or from theories of quantum physics, such as the popular paradox of the cat of cat Schrödingerwhich is alive and dead at the same time. To think that time is not linear and that everything happens at the same time, believes Lama, allows “to take importance to death”, because according to these theories we would always be “living every possible lives”. Beyond the death of a loved one, the work also wants to talk about mourning for lost links with living people, such as an absent father. Lama wonders, “What hurts, a mourning for a person who has died or mourning for a person who is still alive, but has killed the relationship?”

Despite the darkness of the topics he deals with, They protect me the stars It has a bright background, which is present in its title. Beyond being a quote from a series of the series Dragon Ball (that the most geeks will know how to perceive), alludes to the light made by people who are no longer there.

They protect me the stars, the company’s third show Vesta Templewill premiere with the support of the call of the Network of Proximity Theaters where the theater beats. Lama feels “grateful”, and believes that help like these are indispensable so that projects without large budgets can move forward. “We hope that it can be a first step to open us to new spaces, while still present and supporting these local rooms,” he says.

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