Yesterday You Were Angry in Green

As part of the Festival de Otoño, Polish director and playwright Anna Augustynowicz premieres in Spain on 7 and 8 November in the Sala Verde of Teatros del Canal a drama that addresses the experience of raising a neurodivergent daughter and, at the same time, reflects on society's response to diversity. The performance is in Polish with Spanish surtitles. The show uses visual and sound stimuli that may be disturbing.

The piece follows a first-time mother and her daughter on a journey marked by prejudice and difficulties of understanding, but also by the building of a bond of their own. Starting from this relationship, the production opens a space for debate on the role of educational and health institutions and on the mechanisms through which society accompanies or conditions the families of neurodivergent people. The personal experience thus becomes the starting point for a broader look at inclusion, care and the structures that surround parenting.

The production is a stage adaptation of the book by journalist Eliza Kącka. The literary work, which is autobiographical in nature, recounts the process of raising an autistic daughter and serves as material for a proposal that combines the intimate dimension of family experience with a reflection of social scope. Anna Augustynowicz, for her part, directs the Teatr Współczesny in Szczecin and has been awarded the Paszport Polityki, one of Poland's leading cultural prizes, as well as the Zygmunt Hübner award, which recognises both an artistic career and a conception of theatre linked to its cultural and social mission.