Perfect Ass

Perfect ass returns to Madrid: La Impura Compañía premieres at the Sala Lola Membrives of Teatro Lara

From Sunday 13 September to 1 November, Sundays at 13:00

La Impura Compañía brings Perfect ass back to Madrid, the play written and directed by Ale Lacour that explores what freedom means when you are a woman in 2026. The show premieres on Sunday 13 September in the Sala Lola Membrives, the off space of Teatro Lara, where it will run every Sunday at 13:00 until 1 November.

Perfect ass is not a play about feminism: it is a play about the women who live within, outside and despite it. In four scenes — from the university classroom to the striptease club, from the family market to the intimacy of a couple — the piece traces four ways of negotiating freedom in a world that looks, judges, buys and, above all, desires women. A fragmented contemporary drama, with grotesque elements, built without a single thesis or moral: coherence, the play says, is a luxury few women can afford.

The starting point is an uncomfortable question. In Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger wrote that women, trained from childhood to examine themselves, end up watching themselves constantly and continuously knowing they are being watched. Lacour carries that idea into the present: an experimental video — material that forms part of the staging — shows real women walking past a window that acts as a mirror, unable to resist taking photos that will end up posted online for others to approve of, or not. From this arises the question that runs through the play: have we confused the much-touted female empowerment with the hypersexualisation of the female body?

The piece is structured in four stories, each with its own tone and register: Mujer frente al espejo, La donna è mobile, Perfect ass and She says no. Each poses a different version of the same tension without resolving it.