The show presents the conflicts and problems of the current Europe, but it mainly focuses on 1936, concretely, on the moment when Valencia was the capital city of the Republic and women members of the brigade had an special importance. The new performance represents a parallelism between women of that period and young people serving NGOs nowadays. The Cultural Centre La Nau host the presentation, with Antonio Ariño, vice-principal for Culture and Equality; Abel Guarinos, director of CulturArts; the director of the show, Antoni Tordera and one of the directors of Escena Erasmus, Josep Valero. 

The show, that is about 90 minutes, is included in the programme of activities with which the UV, through the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality, commemorates the 80th anniversary of the proclamation of Valencia as capital city of the Second Republic and that counts on the collaboration of different institutions such as the General Direction for Culture of the Valencian Ministry, of CulturArts Theatre and Dance, and the Youth Councillorship of the Valencian City Council and the Theatre Club of the UV. 

During the interventions, the vice-principal for Culture as well as the director of CulturArts highlight the importance of giving support to this kind of projects focused on creating historic memory and, at the same time, committing with the most current problems. “The question we could ask ourselves after the show is where are now all those international members of the brigade, and we could surely focus on young people and Erasmus students who promote an international and open Europe against populisms”, said Ariño. 

The director of the Escena Erasmus project, Josep Valero has expressed that with this show he has the intention of claiming another Europe, the Europe of the people, compared to the Europe imposed by the market, something that is becoming a hallmark of this project that already inspired previous shows of Escena Erasmus.   

“The undeniable starting point is the memory, but it is an investigation about the future and we want to provoke the audience with a title referred to the civil war that has just begun”, has explained Antoni Tordera, director of the show. 

A total of 20 actors and actresses (Erasmus students of a casting of 120 participants), more than 20 sequences and the building of La Nau “taken” by the staging for this new show, so even though it is represented in the theatre hall of the building (Matilde Salvador room), the Sapiència Chapel recreates a war hospital and the university Senate will also host several facilities, among others, it has been reserved an area for the NGOs during the representation of the theatre play. The show will begin in the Chapel and the cast will move the 60 people who could daily attend the representation to the Matilde Salvador room. 

From its long track record, the Escena Erasmus project of the UV is based in the theatre creation with Erasmus students who study in the institution selected each year through a casting, with shows displayed around Spain and from 2014 around the little Valencian villages (‘Las Pequeñas Europas’ Programme). Escena Erasmus is an initiative managed by the Theatre Company CRIT that, among others, received the European Charlemagne Youth Prize given by the European Parliament as a promotion of youth at European scale through culture.