Everything is said again for the first time

History repeats itself, but never in the same way. We like to think of theatre as a space where words and bodies trace new paths upon ancient footprints. Some performances, at the time, shook us and opened questions that still echo today. Refugi was one of them. And that’s why we return.

We first saw it over twenty years ago, directed by Oriol Broggi at Sala Beckett. Clara Segura, Pau Miró, Mar Ulldemolins, and Rafa Cruz shone brightly on stage, bringing Jessica Goldberg’s text to life — sharp, fragile, unrelenting — cracking open our understanding of family.

Now, in 2025, Refugi returns to the stage, but with a new gaze. Mònica Molins, a new gem in the lineage, takes over direction. Four young actors, four new voices, step into the skin of the four characters, and everything is spoken again as if for the first time.

Refugi shakes us because it confronts a cornerstone of our society: the family. But not family as a choice, rather as an imposition, as a duty. We’ve been taught to believe in it without question, to uphold it without cracks. But is that what we really want? Or are we simply living by inertia? Goldberg urges us to look differently at this pillar of wellbeing, to listen closely to its creak.

You're so selfish. You don’t spend all day alone. You don’t have to think that no one will ever love you, that you’ll never have a girlfriend, that you’ll be alone, always alone, and that your body will ache when you get up, and sometimes you can’t even pee — and if you do, then the pee is your friend for a moment, and then it’s there in the toilet, and that’s it.

Sometimes, we need to pass through discomfort to see clearly.

Refugi will run for just four weeks at Teatre La Biblioteca. Let’s return together.

Everything is said again for the first time