We have seen Los días afuera

Lola Arias has delivered a powerful piece of work on the Parvis stage. Six characters arrive there, each with their own journey, their own experiences, their own turbulent history, which they reveal raw and unfiltered right from the start of the performance. What unites them is their time in a women's prison in Buenos Aires. But Yosela, Paulita, Carla, Natal, Estefania, and Noélia are not actresses. It was in prison that the Argentinian director Lola Arias met them in 2019 during theater and film workshops. This encounter resulted in the documentary film *Reas* and the play that is now taking place on the Parvis stage after its premiere last summer at the Avignon Festival. It is this shared history that permeates the performance; it is with this raw material that Lola Arias constructs the show. The journey begins, a nearly two-hour road trip that never lets up. Their former lives, the children, the drugs, their daily struggle for survival. Their sexuality. The material is rich; the experiences of these women scarred by life give rise to intensely powerful moments on stage. And the sheer joy of being there, touring the world of theater after years of confinement, is palpable. We laugh, we dance, we sing of newfound freedom, like so many fresh fragments of life. Even if they don't collectively create a show, nor a message, with the same intensity as the fragments that compose it.