The mothers say is the name of the show that Alejandro Palomas (Barcelona, 1967) presents starting tomorrow, and for five Saturdays (5:30 p.m.), at the Goya theater. The writer lost his mother two years ago and for 70 minutes he pays tribute to his mother and all mothers, "for the support they provide."
“The show arises – declares Palomas – from the conjunction of making public the abuses of when I was a child and the path I traveled with her. It is the tribute that I pay to her for so many years of complicity. It is basically a tribute to maternal complicity”.
The mothers say it is a review “of those points that have been uniting us and that have not allowed me to disappear along the way”. The show consists of two parts. In the first, the Barcelona writer offers a monologue: "Here I explain why I am alive, which is thanks to her, how she has supported me and breathed into me the air I needed to continue here."
In the second part, Palomas reads four poems, "which are four parts of her body", taken from her latest collection of poems, and a later dedicated to her after her death. "In this part I take the opportunity to explain the different relationships we have with mothers, with grandmothers..., that is, the different generations of maternity."
In these poems, Palomas reflects on what happens when mothers disappear: “I explain what is the link that is still alive so that I don't leave. There are things that are there even if we don't see them and that you learn from being orphaned”.
“Now that hackneyed thing happens that I keep talking to her, I keep walking with her. My mother continues to be present from a much freer focus. Being an orphan gives you wonderful freedom and confronts you with a terrible desert: what direction am I going to take now, if I no longer have a reference? ”, she concludes.
