De algún tiempo a esta parte, by Max Aub

My hands are stiff; I can look at them as if they were not mine, red, dark. And I studied, my degree was in a mahogany frame ... It was in the afterlife.

This is how Emma presents herself to the audience, contemplating her hands and noticing that she does not recognize them, since the last events that have happened in her life. In less than a year she has gone from being the respected wife of an engineer, owner of a factory, the attentive mother of a young man with a promising future in the field of international diplomacy, a pleasant neighbor, a good friend ... to be widowed, alone and helpless, cleaning a theater and sleeping in an attic. His man has been shot and his son has died in Spain, in a prison of reds, after finding him working in the Austrian consulate when the country had already been invaded by the Germans. Emma, ​​trembling with cold, talks to her dead husband, telling him things that she had already explained to him in life, various gossip, memories of happy and distant years ...
 
Written in 1939, "From some time to this part" tells the anguished existence of a woman in the Vienna of 1938, after Anschluss: the annexation of Austria to the nazi Germany, during the vigil of the Second World War.
 
A minimalist staging that, instead of filling the stage, accompanies it, enhancing the text and the creation of Emma, ​​the protagonist of the work, above all else.