Final Degree Project

EÓLIA EMERGING SCENE 2025

The day a man like any other dies, he inevitably thinks of his children. He thinks of many things, of course. Of all the things he has done well AND of all those others he has not done so well, which are probably many more.

That day, even if he is not a believer, even if he perhaps thinks that his existence ends here and now forever, even if he thinks that all this about heaven and hell is essentially nothing more than an anachronistic superstition, he still has a certain desire to go away in peace. With no pending matters.

And since the first thing that comes to mind is that he hasn't done very well with his children, he tries to find a quick solution. But, as anyone who has had children knows, these things take a lifetime.

So, he makes a drastic decision: Someone needs to be the father of his children and fix everything he hasn't had time to do in his entire life..

I guess it's not really a very strange decision. Rather, it's a relatively common occurrence. Appointing a guardian to perform the functions that the deceased father will not be able to perform.

In this case, however, the three children - Albert, Mònica and Oriol - are already adults, each with their own lives, shortcomings and ways of managing the emotional distance they have maintained with their father.

ADDRESS NOTE

To my father.

I've been thinking about this for a long time. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it for a long time. That's why I wrote this work. Dad or everything I'll do when you finally die. When you finally die. That's strong, huh? When finally. I mean I'm looking forward to it. And why do I have to wait for you to die? For you to finally die. Why can't I do all this stuff I want to do now?

Love your parents. You've been told that all your life. After all, we live where we live. And if we didn't live here it would be the same. I think even animals have some kind of equivalent of all this. Loving your parents. What a thing. But it's not easy. It's not easy. It's not that easy. It's true: being a parent isn't easy either. Loving your children unconditionally, as we've been taught to do with good parents, is not easy at all. In fact, it's the most unnatural thing in the world.

If they were different maybe it would be easier. If they weren't so much... Or if they were more... But they aren't. Because they are what they are. We are what we are. And that's not easy. Doesn't it bother you when they do that...? Or that other thing. I can't stand that other thing. I just can't. I'm sorry. I want to love you, but I can't. If you do this, or that other thing, I can't. If you didn't do it, maybe I could.

That's why I've been thinking about it for so long. That I think about it. I think that if we could change, we would. We would. And we would love each other. We would love each other more. You know what I'm saying? I've thought about this a lot. And why don't I change, me? Why don't I? Huh?

When I think about it, I realize that I don't know what I have to change. Because I like myself. I like the way I am. And what I don't like, I change. But what others don't like, I don't know. Because they don't tell me. Those who don't like me do tell each other. But not me. They never tell me. They pretend that everything is fine. And they expect me to change without telling me that they want me to do something different. Don't you see how ironic all of this is?

Sometimes it's better to say things. I'm sure great tragedies could have been avoided if we had simply communicated a little better. It's like that whole thing about the kid who kills his father and fucks his mother because he doesn't know who his father and mother are. What if he had asked them? Huh? Hey, are you my mother? Yeah. Well, we better put our pants back on. See? One of the most transcendent tragedies in the history of humanity, I haven't heard from you.

If you do nothing, I can assure you that the only thing that will end up changing, inevitably, in reality, the only thing that will change is what you do, that is, if you do nothing, the only thing that many of you think can really change is (Here an actor would suggest death). Because the only thing you're sure of with absolute certainty is the fact that one day your father will die. Maybe that'll leave you alone for once, I guess. Or no, if your name is Hamlet maybe not.

Bernard Gaya.

A production ofAeolian Emerging Scene 2025