‘Una’ is a theatrical project co-directed by Maite Jáuregui and Pau Aran, based on an interdisciplinary creative exchange, framed in the cities of London, Madrid and Barcelona. This one woman show started in September 2016 in Spain and continued with 3 more performances throughout 2017.

Maite Jáuregui performed on stage while Pau Aran guided and assisted the work. Together with Javi Pastor they developed the story of Una, a writer who we join in her imaginary world to discover the facts that have determined her current, less dreamlike reality.

The project seeks to question the nature of denial as a central element in the character’s make-up and something that is very present in our behaviour today. We see Una’s interactions with people, life, death. We can easily juxtapose these to our own personal stories.

Organizing and ordering a pre-established chaos… enumerating, dictating, writing out everything that has survived, to build, what?

Our house? Our dreams? Our inner world? But really. It’s all fine, it’s all just fine.

Immersing oneself in the memory, dancing in a small world of desires, lies, schizophrenic complexes, daily persecutions, self-convictions. When suddenly a single gesture in front of our eyes can captivate us and change our lives forever. So, we turn with open arms, looking at the sky, searching.

In the searching and in the rhythm of the moments that remain, that will take shape on our skin, that will blur in the air around us, and emerge again every morning, guiding our steps and our decisions.

In all this confusion, of a past badly remembered and transformed into gestures, we dance, because finally we talk too much, and maybe, just maybe we find ourselves.