Twenty-one women aged between 10 and 71, refugees from the cities of Mariúpol, Kyiv, Irpín and Járkiv, unite their voices against the war in Ukraine, on the stage of the Fabià Puigserver room of the Free Theatre.
Polish director and singer Marta Górnicka presents Mothers. A song for wartime, a choral piece that is at the same time a healing ritual based on a shedrivka, a traditional pre-Christian Ukrainian song that was only sung by women and children.
The show, which uses the Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages ??(with surtitles in Catalan and English), begins with a wish for happiness and rebirth of the world in the form of this song from ancient times. In the pre-Christian era, people believed in the power of song and trusted that words and good wishes for a specific person would come true. Today, Górnicka hopes that these sung wishes will have that effect on the current war.
The women of Ukraine and Belarus who have fled the war want with their voices not only to denounce the absurdity of the war, but to be the protagonists of their stories. “Our show is about women and war. Of defense and responsibility mechanisms. Of our reaction to a war in Europe. Of the rituals of war violence against women and civilians, which are immutable,” declares the director and creator of Mothers. A song for wartime. This choir of mothers seeks to be the embodiment of the collective and transgenerational wisdom that allows us to imagine a world without war.
