El silenci dels telers

Two actresses trace the lives of Pilar and Carme, two women who worked their entire lives in a textile colony of the late nineteenth century, and with them, more than a century of history of that miniature world beside the rivers.

Pilar and Carme lived and worked all their lives in one of the textile colonies that flourished on the banks of rivers at the end of the nineteenth century. These colonies began to close from the 1980s onwards, but the two women remain, in a way, present in this stage production.

The performance follows the day-to-day life of that miniature world and spans more than a century of history, while the colonies were still in operation. We see History, with a capital H, pass by, while the piece dwells on the small, everyday stories that help us understand an era.

The original idea is by Maria Casellas, and the actresses are Maria Casellas and Andrea Portella. Direction is by Ferran Utzet and the dramaturgy is by Anna Maria Ricart. The show is staged at Cafè Teatre Orient, in Prats de Llucanes.