This is the story of a midwife who works at the hospital in Reykjavík. She has assisted in around two thousand births and comes from a family where her profession has been passed down from generation to generation. She is forty years old and lives in the apartment of her great-aunt — also a midwife, and with whom she shares her name. Christmas is approaching, the time of year in Iceland when daylight lasts only six hours.
The midwife’s apartment becomes a place where different lives converge: her meteorologist sister, warning of a major storm; an Australian tourist eager to see the Northern Lights; a friend searching for furniture; and a sad electrician who has just become a father. But above all, it is a place haunted by the powerful words of the great-aunt and her stories of midwives crossing frozen mountains on foot to assist a birth, of whales acting as midwives for other whales, of the superiority of sheep over humans, and, above all, of the great journey from darkness into light.
The Truth About Light is a celebration of life and of humanity’s constant search for light. A story about the simplicity of “being born, dying, and, in between, weathering a few storms.”
Dramaturgy Anna Maria Ricart Codina
Direction Ferran Utzet
Set design Sergi Corbera
Production Els telers produccions i Teatre Akadèmia
Teatre Akadèmia, Barcelona. 2/4/25
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