Time proof friendships
Life friendships are a shelter, but they can also be an uncomfortable mirror that forces us to face our own changes. When time passes, the dynamics are transformed and it is often time to rethink who we are and how we relate to others. This need to be reinvented within a group of friends is the engine of two proposals from the theater billboard: The barbarians at the Borràs Theater, until April 27, and A closed menu In La Villarroel, from May 16.
Into The barbariansthe playwright Lucía fucked presents the meeting of three women of sixty years (María Pujalte, Cristina Plazas and Francesca Piñón) that they meet again to fulfill the final desire of a younger friend who has died. The work puts on the table the unmatched dreams, the vital resignations and the impact of feminism in a generation that had to fight for its independence without clear references. “These women have paved their way, but they also have to face the frustration of seeing that there are still many structural barriers,” says the director David Selvas. This reunion becomes an opportunity to question and redefine their friendship in a world that is no longer what they had helped to build.
For its part, A closed menu of Jordi Casanova gather three lifelong friends (Roger Coma, Joan Arqué and Òscar Muñoz) at a dinner where the past resurface unexpectedly. The work uses gastronomy as a common thread to explore male vulnerability, fears and the difficulty of breaking with inherited patterns. “The men of this generation have an ambivalent relationship with change: they want it, but at the same time they fear it,” reflects Casanovas. The protagonist, a recognized chef, designs a menu that forces his friends to face his own contradictions, in a combination of humor and dramatic tension. What was to be a festive meeting becomes an emotional challenge that pushes them to redefine themselves as individuals and friends.
Between comedy and drama
The weight of the past and the legacy of the decisions made becomes a fundamental axis in both pieces. While a The barbarians feminism and friendship between women are presented as engines of change and confrontation with reality A closed menu The gaze focuses on how men face the passage of time and the need to reinvent themselves. Two halfway between comedy and drama that reflect on our own evolution and the links we have been weaving throughout life. Be it between cups of wine and exquisite dishes or between memories evoked by melodies of the past, they are two essential proposals for understanding how friendship and emotions are transformed over the years.
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