Matria

“Mother, courage!”, those were the last letters that Enrique Isart Alonso wrote to his mother before being shot by Franco. It was 1939 and almost 80 years later his body still has not appeared. Her great-niece, the actress, director and playwright Carla Rovira, rescues her story through letters, documents and stories from the women in her family. This happens in Matria, a work that comes from Spain thanks to an alliance between Fundación Santiago Off and GAM.

How to address family memory in a State forged in oblivion? What family wounds did the Spanish Civil War leave? What role do mothers play in that? These questions guide the staging that reflects on historical memory and narratives of oblivion from a family perspective.

The stage is located in the center of a circular space. Two screens project videos and documents as the work tells its own creation process, with the doubts and difficulties that tracing family history brings.