David Caiña is a playwright and screenwriter born in Bilbao in 1988. After studying Advertising and Public Relations and working as an advertising copywriter, he discovered that he deeply loved writing and strongly disliked advertising. Since 2012, he has written more than a dozen theatre plays out of passion and directed some of them out of necessity.
His favorite genre as a spectator (and reader) is horror, while as an author he gravitates toward comedy; he believes that there is not much distance between the two. He currently combines dramatic writing with the development of several television series, one of them being Makarras for RTVE Play, as well as feature films.
His other great passion is teaching and coordinating writing workshops, an activity he carries out for institutions such as ECPV, Euneiz, and Fundación SGAE.
The play reconstructs the emotional anatomy of a couple over the course of several years through a series of breakfasts that become emotional landmarks in their relationship. Structured fragmentarily and outside chronological order, the text pieces together the love story of Itxaso and Ibai through seemingly ordinary moments: their first mornings together, moving into a new home, holidays, conflicts, loss, and separation, transforming the banality of the morning ritual into a space of memory and vulnerability.
Beyond its romantic dimension, the play speaks about the difficulty of building the idea of “home” in an unstable contemporary world, about the fragility of shared projects, and about the ways in which love changes over time. The house the two characters imagine and build together becomes an extension of their relationship: a space conceived in happiness, then gradually fractured by misunderstandings, loss, and the inability to communicate and share pain.
Through the constant interplay between humour and vulnerability, the play creates a sensitive reflection on emotional memory, routine, and the ways in which people try to remain together even when love no longer has the same form it once had.
Translated by: Luminița Voina Răuț
Cast: Andrei Gîlcescu, Antonia Dobocan, Mihai Mocanu
Event moderated by: Bobi Pricop Duration: 1h 30min Spain, Romania
