“Night is falling. There’s a woman at the foot of the stairs. She’s carrying a body on her back. Darkness.”

In The Weight of a Body (2022), premiered in Spanish at the Centro Dramático Nacional (Madrid) and in Catalan at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona), we encounter a woman who is struggling to look after her father after he has suffered a stroke. Once a source of emotional and ideological strength, he is now completely dependent, a paradigm of fragility, whose frequent episodes of hallucinations make it impossible for him to distinguish between past and present, reality and illusion. Their lack of economic resources alongside the precarity of societal networks of care means they are trapped without access to the support they need and soon find they are spiralling into freefall.
A play about aging, dependency and care in contemporary society.

Running time: 80 minutes

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