Tres noches en Ítaca

A woman, nearing fifty, leaves her family and her job as a Greek teacher at a secondary school to go and live on a Greek island: Ithaca. Twenty years later, her three daughters travel to Greece to arrange her funeral. These Three Nights in Ithaca give them the chance to discover who their mother really was.

Alberto Conejero places this text in the hands of María Goiricelaya as a reflection on the individual within the family and beyond it. A brisk piece that Conejero describes as a tragicomedy, because what could lead someone to abandon her life, her family, her job, and go and live kilometres away? Alicia’s daughters, Ariadna, Penelope and Elena, all in their forties and fifties, must uncover what happened to their mother and how she lived all those years so far from them. But the time has also come for them to discover who they themselves are. Whether they want to or not. Tres noches en Ítaca is a funeral in Greece, on an island where people still sing, but it is also a birth: the beginning of a stage of maturity in the lives of Ariadna, Elena and Penelope.

Rocío Bello 

Dramaturgista de la temporada 25/26 de Nave 10 Matadero