Cartas no escritas

A stage proposal by David Geselson, with Nathalie Poza, Pablo Rosal and Valentin Mussou, in which letters the audience never got round to writing are composed in a single day and brought to the stage that very same night.

Cartas no escritas starts from a simple question: what happens to the words we never manage to say, and to the letters we never dared to write? Born at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris, the project has been touring stages in several countries for more than a decade, reinventing itself in each city. In this Madrid version, David Geselson shares the stage with actress Nathalie Poza, playwright and writer Pablo Rosal and cellist Valentin Mussou.

The starting point is open sessions with the audience. Anonymous people share stories and confessions and ask for that outstanding letter to be written for them. The texts may be declarations of love, farewells, reproaches, expressions of gratitude or secrets kept for years. They are written in a single day and, that very same night, they make their way onto the stage.

Each performance interweaves letters born in the moment with others that emerged in earlier performances in different towns, forming a fabric of intimate voices. La Abadía, a theatre with a contemporary programme, hosts this production in its Sala José Luis Alonso. Because the experience is built in real time, each session turns out differently from the others.