Las Bárbaras

A theatre piece with humour about three lifelong friends who meet at a hotel far from the city, six months after the death of a younger woman whom all of them accompanied.

Susi, Carmen and Encarna have been friends since school. Six months after the death of Bárbara, a woman considerably younger than them, whom all three of them accompanied in different ways, they meet again at a secluded hotel on the outskirts of Madrid.

Bárbara's final wish is that they put on the table the image they have of one another and the image they have of themselves, on matters such as work, motherhood or feminism. From that conversation emerges a story that charts the map of their contradictions and, at the same time, the future of their friendship.

The author starts from the distance between her mother's generation and her own, in the years after the MeToo movement burst onto the scene. Her protagonists are diverse women, hard to pin down under a single label: those who divorced or progressed professionally, those who are still married to their first boyfriend, those who devoted themselves to raising children. This show looks at these women and, at the same time, looks at itself through them, always with humour.