A play that is a song to love without any sloppiness

Until May 25th you can see it at the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia, Lovers' Heart, a tender and emotionally intense play written by playwright Tiago Rodrigues. Few stories have the power to draw the viewer so quickly into the world of a couple. A traumatic event will be the trigger. And it won't take long for us to realize that we already love those two strangers we have on stage. Marta Marco and Joan Carreras give a masterful performance. So much so that even in the longest of silences we can understand what they're thinking and what's happening in that relationship. On the day of the premiere, there was a moment when the audience smiled at the same time without either of the two protagonists needing to say anything, telling without speaking, simply because of the tension they knew how to build. And, surely, also because of how easy it is to reflect.

Fantastically directed by the same author and Anna Llopart, Lovers' Heart It's a journey through the life of a married couple and a reflection on shared time. "When I was little, I thought life was complicated. I learned the thing about simplicity with you." But often, the urgent takes precedence over the important. "We shouldn't have wasted time doing small things, small, unimportant things," they say. "Watching the news, sending bills, writing emails, stapling papers..." The play is an injection of energy and affection. It condenses the essence of their journey together in just one hour. "We have time," the couple affirms, sometimes with conviction and other times with hope. And it becomes a life motto and a goal: to discover the present, "what we used to call tomorrow, and now it's today." But at the same time, the present is transformed, and at each stage of life, we discover new needs, dreams, and projects. Lovers' Heart It speaks to us about the restlessness we feel when we want to change things, especially those we believe redirect our path. A restlessness that also demands an effort we can't always assume as we would like. "The decision to change is swift as lightning, but change is slow, slow as an animal changing its coat, slow as a tree changing its color, the days are swift, but change is slow." Lovers' Heart It's a text of short sentences, but it doesn't make existential pronouncements. It perfectly evokes the inevitable flow of life and, at the same time, the thoughts that run through it. Love without the usual.

It's a beautiful work, full of truth, with just the right amount of poetry, with the necessary dose of humor that everyday life often demands of us. It's presented without excess or flourishes, with the same simplicity as everyday life, but with the ability to elevate it in our own lives. We have time.