El Estado de la Unión

A comedy at the Teatro Lara in Madrid about Tomás and Luisa, a married couple with two children who try to save their relationship through unfiltered conversations in a bar near their couples therapy.

Tomás and Luisa have been married for fifteen years and have two children. They are going through a deeply wearing period and, as a last resort, decide to go to couples therapy together. The action takes place in the bar opposite the therapist's office, where the two meet ten minutes before each session to have a glass of wine and a beer before going in.

What happens inside the office is left outside the story. What we see is the conversation in that bar: they talk about their life together, about what drives them up the wall day to day, about their past and about the lack of sexual intimacy. They also talk about the children, about expectations that have gone awry, about disappointments, about love and about life in general.

The question that drives the show is whether the couple will manage to rediscover the enthusiasm they once felt for each other. The tone is that of comedy, with two characters facing their own contradictions in an everyday, recognisable setting, with no artifice beyond their words.