ONCE there was a village…ONCE there was a woman…ONCE there was a story…
ONCE is a play without words that speaks about love, loss, loneliness, memory and roots. ONCE is 
a tribute to villages, to the rural world and those who live in it. EL PATIO dives into the depth of an unreachable and vague rural memory, the one that is nearly forgotten, forced to lie under the water of the reservoirs. Stories are sleeping under the water, in places that once were forest, grass, crops, a school. The life of a woman sinking, a woman who refuses to abandon her world, now reduced to a small stone island. Her story is that of many who once had to say goodbye to the place that was home. The performers use their hands to create a humorous and heartfelt story. In a simple easy style, only using some cloth and a house, they submerge us in a story that truly moves us.