Mom doesn´t know yet
by Blanca Baltés
Four daughters grow up. Mom protects. Or try. The little girl observes, asks herself questions, counts silences. News after news, scare after upset, the intrigue makes its way in bites. Dizzying story composed as a mosaic, with agile episodes that mix the comic and the tragic, as in life. Mom asks few questions and keeps many silences. But life goes on, life doesn't wait. Mama Doesn't Know It Yet is the first narrative work by Blanca Baltés. Her dramatic writing covers various genres and styles (children's, comedy, dance-theater, document theater...). She has covered El amor aluso, by Antonio de Solís (Corral de Comedias de Almagro, 2002) and Casandra, by Benito Pérez Galdós (Teatro Español de Madrid, 2020). Added to these works are original works such as Half-Over Oracle (Sala Triángulo in Madrid, 2003) or Beatriz Galindo in Stockholm (Sala de la Princesa, CDN, 2018). Unpublished remains Doors Out (below the words), selected in the Creation Aid program of the Community of Madrid (2008). The novel narrates the life of a Spanish woman, her four daughters and her mother, her grandmother. In some way it tells the intrahistory of a part of Spanish women during the second half of the 20th century. It is a familiar and everyday story, in which europeans who are now over 40 can recognize themselves, but at the same time surprising, with unexpected twists from beginning to end.