Yesterday, the Teatre de Salt hosted the premiere of 'Dones de Ràdio', a text by Cristina Clemente directed by Sergi Belbel and produced by Bitò . The playwright and the director, despite having collaborated on other occasions, this is the first time they have embarked on a joint project, a production that talks about cancer without taboos, with frankness, a sense of humor and a lot of tenderness.
Three great actresses from our country, Àngels Gonyalons , Sara Espígul and Sara Diego star in the production, putting themselves in the shoes of three very different women who one day find themselves... a lump in their chest. Rosa, fifty-five years old, leads a top-rated radio program, is an ironic woman with character. Àgata, who is around forty, works as a nurse in a hospital, is discreet and sensitive. Carol, who has not yet turned thirty, is not very focused professionally, and is direct and uninhibited. Three lives that have nothing in common but that will make a 180-degree turn.
'Women of Radio' can also be seen at the Teatre de Salt on February 1st and 2nd. Afterwards, it will begin a tour of Catalonia that will take the work to more than fifteen towns such as Cerdanyola, Cardedeu, Igualada, Banyoles, Argentona, Vic or, in the Balearic Islands, Manacor. In addition, the production will arrive in Barcelona on March 22nd where it will be in season at the Villarroel hall until May 11th.
Cristina Clemente, the author, explains that to write the work she contacted eight women who had suffered from breast cancer. These women had met through an association and all eight were very different with the disease as the only thing in common. According to Clemente, “when I did this, something really caught my attention: the relationship between them, how they talked about the disease, how they shared a world that for me was taboo, that generated a certain fear and even some prejudices. I think putting this on stage is necessary and can also be beautiful. Because in the darkness, there can also be beauty. And a sense of humor. In the first conversation that I had with them for more than four hours, there were moments of emotion and crying, moments that spoke of fear, moments full of hope, of complicity between them and also moments that made them laugh out loud. My first premise was to write a story about the friendship between these women who suffer from cancer. But they are clear: No, the friendship that emerged does not compensate for the illness.”