SYNOPSIS

St. Andrew's Hospital, Northampton (United Kingdom), December 12, 1982. Lucia, a 75-year-old patient, needs to write a letter. Today, the eve of her saint's day, Lucia will sort out all that has remained unsaid. "I feel the need to say goodbye, but I don't know to whom," she tells herself. Lucia will thus be able to review her past. She will evoke moments spent with her great love, Samuel Beckett, or with her psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung. But above all, this testamentary letter on the last day of her life will be an act of love for dance, for freedom and life, a defense of the art of feeling, and an appeal to her Babbo: a letter to her father, James Joyce.

The life of Lucia Joyce is a fictionalized secret. Even her leading scholars have had to combat the intentional destruction of numerous letters, reports, and documents. Lucia was a passionate woman who devoted herself to dance, trained with Raymond Duncan and Margaret Morris, and collaborated with Leger and Man Ray's Ballet Mécanique. She lived through the birth of modern dance, but also suffered the fierce legacy of the Joyce family, marked by exile, economic instability, talent, psychological suffering, disdain for dance, and emotional devastation. Her story speaks of the difficult coexistence with a genius when a woman's role is merely to be a muse, not an artist.

ARTISTIC - TECHNICAL TEAM

Written by Itziar Pascual

Direction and Dramaturgy: Cristina D. Silveira

Performers: Memé Tabares / Jorge Barrantes / Carla González

Musical composition: Álvaro Rodríguez Barroso

Audiovisual creation: Chronic Comedians

Direction and production: Juan Vázquez / Photography direction: Nicolás Yazigi /

Cameraman: Rubén Cebrián / Assistant cameraman: Miguel Cupido Films / Sound: Luis Cotallo / Script: Marcia Arenas / Editing: Fernando Nieto / VFX Supervisor: Kanit Joshi / Production direction: Juan Antonio Mancha / Executive production: Fernando Nieto and Juan Vázquez.

Voice-overs: The Open Door Laboratory, Iván Luis, Jorge Barrantes and Memé Tabares

Choreographies: Cristina D. Silveira and Carla González

Lightning: David Pérez Hernando

Scenography: The Goblin's Ship and Antonio Ollero

Dressing: Ruben Lanchazo, Maria Eugenia Sanchez Montero and Miriam Cruz

Wig making: Quinndom Wigs

Assistant Director: Ivan Luis

Choreography Assistant: Francisco García

Photograph: Jorge Armestar

Promotional video: Jerónimo García and Carlos Polo

Graphic design: Marta Barroso

Production Direction: David Pérez