The Tenerife-based company Delirium Teatro is celebrating its 40 years of activity with the project 40 Delirios, which includes the play Libros cruzados (Crossed Books), written by Antonio Tabares. Twelve actors are to interpret Libros cruzados in an eight-show run in the La Salita hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife after its premiere in Tacoronte on 5 and 6 September.

A book is passed from one person to another: Ana Karenina, and three women rethink their lives after reading it. For museum security guard Mariana, the story reflects her own life, which she feels is dull and senseless; novelist Patricia comes to question her profession and the sincerity of her relationship; and Cris finds consolation in the works of Tolstoy to deal with her pain. Libros cruzados expresses Tabares' love of books and his rumination regarding the extent to which books may shed light on our lives and help us to carry on.