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A comedy with a comic and surreal tone that begins with a lecture on perfection in couples and ends in a therapy session with two young lovers. It is staged at Teatro Lara in Madrid.

A professor of mathematics gives a lecture on how to achieve perfection in romantic relationships. She is accompanied by a pianist who illustrates her theory with musical excerpts. Little by little, the talk drifts towards an unusual question: whether there is a mathematical formula capable of describing a perfect crime.

The pianist, overwhelmed by the situation, addresses the audience to tell them about his married life, which swings between devotion to his spouse and bursts of infatuation. Following the lecture episode, the couple has built a relationship they consider exemplary. Advised by their psychologist, they attend a therapy session where they measure themselves against Esther and Amelia, two young lovers who represent just the opposite: lively, cheeky and convinced that their relationship works precisely because they never disagree.

The clash of the two visions turns the scene into a comic and surreal tangle. The show depicts how the two couples question one another until, in the end, they forge an unexpected friendship and set off on a visit to the Pope of Rome. Teatro Lara mainly stages performing arts, with a particular emphasis on comedy, and this production fits that line.