Iaia: Memòria Històrica

Iaia: Memòria Històrica is a contemporary theatre show written and performed by Alba Valldaura, of the company L'Embarral, which traces the life of a woman through the great milestones of twentieth-century Spain.

From a swing seat in the residence where she lives, Mercedes looks back over her long life, which is intertwined with collective history: the Second Republic, the Civil War, the dictatorship and the Transition. The production places these events within the personal experience of a woman of a generation that, according to the premise of the work, has often been left out of the history books.

Historical events appear mixed with memories of her childhood, her youth, her family and her loves. Alba Valldaura takes on the writing and the performance, and the outside eye is provided by Jordi Dueso and Susana Bordería. The work proposes reading the past through an intimate story which, as the staging suggests, helps us understand the present.