The theatre festival Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) has programmed ‘Ana contra la muerte’ (Ana against death), a text by the renowned Uruguayan playwright Gabriel Calderón.

The chances of death are extremely high. But those of never having been born are by far higher. Every person who is born and lives are not only a miracle of nature through its complex biological mechanisms. He/she is also a statistical miracle since the odds of not being born or of dying quickly have always been our cons.

Therefore, we reject death, not out of fear, not out of grief, not because it is unnatural. We reject it because we are the unnatural ones because death is a rule to correct the marvellous exception we are. Death returns us to the statistics, like the minerals and stardust that inhabit worlds where nothing is counted because there is nothing. It is the story of a woman who understood that she had to resist death as long as she could, and even longer.