The lives of women matter (and you don't have to be a feminist to affirm it)

Lali Symon is an actress who every day broadcasts a recorded live show on television in which she tells a life she does not have and never will. It is a vital contradiction of the protagonist, which has led her to hide that she is a single mother. Her daughter has never been on any of her shows, nor has she been able to tell anyone that the famous Lali Symon that the entire population watches on television is her mother. No one relates them because on television Lali Symon wears wigs, glasses, and flamboyant outfits. This is one of the plots of the play Lali Symon, which director Sergi Belbel has written for actresses Mont Plans, Emma Vilarasau, and Júlia Bonjoch to excel in.

I said "one of the plots," because the play, which lasts almost two hours, is complex, has a thousand and one layers, and all of them intertwine with each other. Therefore, it is necessary to deny that the play is "feminist." And, if not, we have to define what "feminism" means. If by "feminism" we understand that it explains the lives of three women who fight to have a place in society with all the emotional and personal burdens they carry, then it is clear that it is. Now, couldn't it be that the playwright Sergi Belbel, author of the script, wanted to narrate the life of a working woman, with a successful profession, who takes care of her mother and her daughter? Is explaining this reality making a feminist play? I believe that the truth is that the play has been called "feminist" because, at some point in the play, Lali Symon (that is, the fiction within the fiction) makes men uncomfortable.

Finally, a few final lines dedicated to the interpretation of the protagonists, who stand out so much that at times it is as if we had entered the neighbor's dining room (or our own house), so plausible and familiar are the scenes. The young Bonjoch fits like a glove alongside Vilarasau and Mont Plans, although there are moments when she hesitates or stumbles with the script. For all this, and because the play manages to provoke the two basic emotions that Aristotle said theater should cause (laughter and tears), going to see the play Lali Symon is dedicating a moment of heaven to oneself. But without leaving the Teatre Romea.