I'm meeting with theater director Ferran Utzet to see his latest play. It has a classic feel—I see Sagarra, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams—also something of Peter Brook and, of course, a generous selection of Catalan plays. Utzet has just opened Jàssera, a bookstore specializing in theater, located in the heart of Barcelona, ​​at 8 Sitges Street, not far from where the historic Millà bookstore and publishing house used to be, also dedicated exclusively to theater, which closed in 2015 after more than a century.

History has been told for many years with the big headlines and the most influential protagonists, usually male. But the true story that truly describes our world is the sum of short stories of quite ordinary women and men with ordinary lives, but crucial to understanding the future of society. These were the two girls from the textile colonies of Catalonia in the 1930s, voiced by Maria Caselles and Andrea Potella Fontcuberta in The silence of the looms, in a play by Anna Ricart Codina inspired by the book by Assumpta Montellà and directed by Ferran Utzet at the Maldà. And they were, they are and they will be the midwives of The truth about light, where the two actresses, the playwright, and the director meet again. A proposal that brings the stage closer the novel by the Icelandic Audur Ava Ólafsdóttir, which tells of a midwife who philosophizes in cold, dark Iceland for many days throughout the year.