SHORT SYNOPSIS

The work begins on Vicky’s last day of work. She and Lluís are full of desire to live new experiences, but what happens when things don’t turn out as they had anticipated? How will they confront the adversities that “destiny” has in store for them?

To live is to risk and sometimes, risking “life” isn’t such a big deal either.

FULL SYNOPSIS

Lluís and Vicky, the protagonists of this story, have all the resources and no obligations to face this new stage and to venture into living it without complexes. They have time, money, and… freedom to be impune.

The work begins on Vicky’s last day of work. She and Lluís are full of desire to live new experiences, but… what happens when things don’t turn out as they had anticipated? How will they confront the possible adversities that health or “destiny” has in store for them?

Tonight, these questions will appear, unknowns and a character (Oriol – although his name is irrelevant) who, even though it may not seem so, will help them from the margins of situations, to feel that really at this age and vital moment, they can do whatever they want and… that in the long run perhaps, they will even be respected.

To live is to risk and there are moments when risking “life” isn’t such a big deal either.

AUTHOR’S WORDS

The motivation for writing a story about two characters in the final stage of their lives comes from observing certain questions that my parents raise nowadays: now they want to learn to play the piano? Is it now that they talk to me about smoking a joint before cardiac surgery? Is it at this moment in their lives, when their health is fragile, that they’ve lost their fear of traveling the world?

And it’s this personal experience that makes me consider that young people (not me, who am already a forty… –+– year-old adult), the audience I generally address and generally speak about in my works, have a lot in common with elderly people (or old people, if we want to say it without complexes).

And it’s these two vital moments, the most vital that exist, that interest me most as a playwright; because they allow me to create characters with drive and infinite, wild desires, who push to the limits all the norms that we “adults” impose.

And it’s also perhaps to rethink the word old. Old? No! Perhaps we should call them “renewed”. And start doing what other societies before ours already did: listen to them, learn from them (not just about intellectual matters), enjoy and have fun with them; stop treating them condescendingly and as if, simply because they’re older, they’re already sick and always require care.

To live is to risk… and we must allow and encourage older people to do so too (since we’re all heading that way).

Daniel J. Meyer