The steward has a lot to say

Actress Rosa Renom is La majordoma, the protagonist of the monologue by playwright Josep Maria Miró, which premiered in January at the Heartbreak Hotel and is now returning, to widespread acclaim, until September 28. Unlike the play El cos més bonic que s'haurà trobat mai en aquest lloc (The Most Beautiful Thing That Had to Be Found in This Place), where the performer, premiered by Pere Arquillué, multiplied himself into seven characters, now there is only one, the majordoma.

She doesn't tell her story directly to the audience when she returns to the apartment in Barcelona's Eixample district where she left thirty years ago, abandoning her husband and four-year-old son. "There's an obvious receiver, who is her husband, but also her mother, the priest..." says the playwright and director. "She establishes a relationship with the priest and adopts his name. In Italian, it's called 'the perpetual one,' which would also explain very well the character Rosa plays," he adds.

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“It's a single voice in two time periods: the present and the past,” Miró continues. “The character has an uncertain nature, which we leave to the viewer's judgment. The script has gradually found the actress, and now it can be no one else but Rosa Renom. She has the ability to convey humanity on stage.”

For the author, this monologue is about power, who has it, and how they manage it: "Power is the ability of some people to dominate others. Now, the most powerful is the one who has power over themselves."