Una Cançó Llunyana

Una cançó llunyana is a play that follows Willem, a banking professional based in New York who is forced to return to Amsterdam, and who revisits, through letters, his family, a lost love and his identity.

The story begins with an unexpected phone call that forces Willem, who has worked in the financial sector in New York, to return to the Dutch capital, which he has not visited for years. Unable to find his place in such an uncomfortable homecoming, he begins writing letters in which he tries to make sense of what he feels.

In these letters he revisits his relationship with his family, a love he failed to keep and the identity he has gradually lost over time. As the days pass, writing becomes the only way to name what he feels and to understand what he has lost and what still lives on within him.

According to the production, the piece observes with candour and without embellishment the human condition, the everyday and the harsh realities surrounding such a return. It deals with what remains when sound turns into silence. The show is performed at La Villarroel, a performance space in Barcelona that mainly hosts theatre.