La Síndrome Natàlia

Bittersweet comedy directed by Jordi Casanovas about the editor of an investigative magazine who has an as-yet unnamed illness and tries to write the ending of her story alongside a nursing assistant and a new roommate.

Natàlia Brugués, editor of an investigative magazine known as the Dama de Cobalt, sees her life change on the very day she manages to bring down a minister. An illness that has yet to be given a name forces her, with little time left, to confront a story she cannot control, and the doctors end up naming it after her: Síndrome Natàlia. Her only ally is Bàrbara, a nursing assistant who cannot keep out of other people's lives.

The arrival of an evasive, cornered man in the next bed upends the original plan, and the story becomes a race-against-the-clock love story. Performed in Catalan, the production sits in the register of bittersweet comedy and reflects on the fear of letting oneself be loved and on who has the right to decide how one's own life ends.

The cast includes Àngels Gonyalons, Diana Gómez, Queco Novell, Ricard Farré and Edu Gibert. The dramaturgy is by Blanca Bardagil and Jordi Casanovas, who also directs the staging. It is presented at the Teatre Borràs, on the plaça d'Urquinaona, a venue whose programme centres on plays.