Between the monologue, the self-fiction, the absurd humor, the fairy tale, the flyer and the social analysis, ¿Cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí? is an exercise for the political agitation. The dramaturgy is the result of a research process, that is also inspired on the three artists vital experience.
The publicist and screenwriter, Olga Iglesias, and the journalist and feminist, Nerea Pérez de las Heras, wonder about themselves and the environment that surrounds them in this piece, a work they have written and will perform together, both directed by Andrea Jiménez. "From a critical and committed look has emerged a show about a lesbian obsessed with her mother, who has spent more than four decades living on the precariousness, " explain its creators.
Olga Iglesias and Nerea Pérez de las Heras found in Andrea Jiménez the common point to release ¿Cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí?. Before this project, Olga Iglesias has been a pollster, waitress, typist, production assistant, book reader for publishers, nightclub public relations, community manager, ghost-writer and screenwriter. Nerea Pérez de las Heras is a journalist, writer and activist, and has spent years developing a political humour in public, which she expressed in Feminismo para torpes. Andrea Jiménez, the director of this show, is also an author, actress and producer, founder of Teatro en Vilo in 2012 together with Noemí Rodríguez. During her career, she has worked as an actress and director, with renowned companies in France, Spain and United Kingdom. She also has created and directed numerous shows, including Interrupted (2013), Generación Why, performed for the first time in Centro Dramático Nacional in 2018; or Locos de amor. In 2019 she received the Ojo Crítico de Teatro award of RNE. Teatro del Barrio has united these three talents in its sixteenth production.