Héctor and Berna are a couple without children, Throughout their lives they have assembled a collection to which they sacrificed everything else. Now, seniors, they want to make sure the collection outlives them, for which they are looking for an heir. They have summoned Susana, collector in turn, perhaps to examine it. Carlos accompanies them, perhaps himself an examiner, if not a piece of the collection. Is The Collection a work about marriage, about the passage of time and the mysterious relationship between people and objects.
Juan Mayorga presents a function where words continue to have an important value. The work starts from reading a news story, in which a couple of collectors wondered what would happen to their collection when they were no longer around. On this occasion, It will feature two emblematic actors from the theater scene such as Ana Marzoa and José Sacristán. Mayorga is one of the most important playwrights on the Spanish stage and has been recognized with the National Theater Award, National Prize for Dramatic Literature, Valle Inclán Award, In addition to being a winner of 5 Max Awards. In 2018 He was elected member of the Royal Academy and in 2022 received the Princess of Asturias Award.
“It was necessary for someone to make the collection. Images separated by oceans or centuries were waiting for someone to put them together. Its destination was the collection. If someday, in a million years, a being capable of thinking and feeling finds the collection, will know what humanity is and what could have been. Before you walk through that door, think that, when they come back to this side, you will see everything from the collection. Also to other people and to themselves. The collection discovers you. You can't see her and not wonder who you are, because it contains everything you are and everything you are not.”
