Las irresponsables

A comedy by Javier Daulte directed by Marta Poveda, with Eva Ugarte, Angy Fernández and Marta Poveda in the cast. Three friends set off on a weekend getaway, and one innocent question sets off unexpected chaos.

Las irresponsables is a comedy written by the Argentine playwright Javier Daulte and directed by Marta Poveda, who is also part of the cast alongside Eva Ugarte and Angy Fernández. The production combines humour with a brisk pace and starts from an apparently trivial situation that gains intensity as the performance goes on.

The plot follows three friends who retreat to a house outside the city to support Lila in her grief after a romantic break-up. What begins as a quiet getaway turns into a chain of unpredictable decisions and absurd mishaps, and the tension between what is socially expected and the darker impulses is the axis of the production.

The play has previously been staged in Buenos Aires and Barcelona, to good reviews and audience response, and now arrives in Madrid at Teatro Maravillas. Its text was also adapted for the cinema in a film directed by Laura Mañá, starring Laia Marull, Betsy Túrnez and Àgata Roca.