Cristina is a screenwriter, playwright, and theater director who lives in the Guinardó neighborhood of Barcelona with her partner, Aniol, who works in the field of leisure education. Today I was invited to dinner with Beren and Adela, her children, aged ten and thirteen respectively. Cristina and I work together on the script team for As if it were yesterday, Although we have known each other since 2008 when we met while working at The heart of the city.

Cristina Clemente (Barcelona, ​​​​1977) is a playwright. She has two plays on the bill, Lapland, at the Teatre Condal, and Women of Radio, at La Villarroel. Both until May 11.

She has lived and lives in the Baix Guinardó neighborhood of Barcelona. "I feel very much from the neighborhood." She went to the Font d'en Fargues school. "It was a pilot school. I did THAT when no one my age was doing it yet." She liked it a lot, "because we didn't call the teacher "Miss" and it was much more modern than other schools."

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Like a punch with a velvet glove. Like a caress with an iron glove. It's not easy to make people laugh, entertain, and move people when talking about breast cancer. It wasn't easy, but Cristina Clemente manages to achieve the goal with a virtuoso balance between comedy and drama, thanks also to the excellent direction of Sergi Belbel and three actresses in a state of grace.

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Sometimes the most sincere friendships are also the most unexpected. Yolanda Fuster, Patrícia Moya, Aïda Cerdanya, Loli Guart, and Íngrid Icra met after suffering from breast cancer. The disease brought them together, but the bond goes much further. "Our conversations don't revolve around cancer. When we see each other, we talk about our children, about life," says Fuster, and Icra adds, "And about sex." They are in their 40s and 50s, and a few months ago, they saw how their experience with the disease was transformed into a play, Women of Radio, written by Cristina Clemente and directed by Sergi Belbel. Clemente –author of productions such as Lapland (2019) and A comprehensive therapy (2022) – infiltrated this collective friendship to build the characters of three women who on stage play Àngels Gonyalons, Sara Espígul and Sara Diego. Women of Radio It premieres at La Villarroel on March 22nd after a successful tour of several theaters across the country. They have already seen it and praised it: "It's a show that touches you deeply, and it made us laugh a lot," emphasizes Icra.

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