"In the Measure of the Impossible" by La Perla 29 at the Teatre la Biblioteca

Cristina Genebat makes her directorial debut with the immense play by Portuguese writer Tiago Rodrigues, the current director of the Avignon Festival. Here, several voices resonate and speak to us about stories on the edge of life.

Where does the urge to help without expecting anything in return come from? Why do some people want a better world, even though they know it’s impossible to change it? What is it that makes us human? Four actors address us as if they were answering our questions: how do you run a refugee camp? How do you face a life-or-death decision? How do you return home after horror? These are the voices of humanitarian workers from the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. They tell the stories they have lived, dilemmas they have had to resolve, big questions that crop up every day in the most ordinary things of realities much closer to us than we might think. Far from sentimentality or moralism, these voices tell their stories and share with us the direct experience of the impossible.