The Teatro del Barrio presents until 24 October the play Contarlo para no olvidar (Telling so as not to forget), created and directed by Miguel Rellán and performed by Amparo Pamplona and Isabel Serrano.
The play recreates a conversation that the reporters Maruja Torres and Mónica G. Prieto actually had, in which they discussed the current situation of journalism, remembered their first chronicles, analysed the Arab World, spoke of the changes that occur in the press at the click of a button, of sexism in the newsrooms, of family and of the impotence that comes from seeing how official discourse drowns out the voice of the victims of intrahistory. Both journalists specialise in international news and war correspondents, one of the most extreme variants of journalism, where the boss is far away and where you have to know how to talk about everything, because the work is not thematic but geographical. Maruja, winner of the Planeta and Nadal awards, has been our eyes in Libya, Panama and Palestine, at times when these areas were bleeding to death in conflicts. Mónica has been a correspondent in Moscow, Rome and Jerusalem, and has written rivers of ink about the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq or the revolutions of the Arab Spring, among other episodes of our recent history, which she experienced in situ. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
