Madres

A comedy directed and written by Elena Díaz Barrigón, in which five women get shut in at a school and reflect on motherhood, mixing humour with letting off steam.

Madres is a comedy in which five women find themselves trapped in the lobby of a school. The confinement leads to a kind of boundaries therapy that nobody had planned, and through it come both the hardest and the most rewarding aspects of motherhood.

The show asks who quietly, and without anyone noticing, bears the weight of caregiving. Through humour, the play puts on the table the effort that so often goes unnoticed in raising children.

The cast is made up of Elena Díaz Barrigón, Cayetana Cabezas, Marta Eguía, Tamara Berbés and Mechi Oliverio. Elena Díaz Barrigón also directs and wrote the dramaturgy. The performance takes place in the sala Cándido Lara of the Teatro Lara, a venue that hosts shows in Madrid.