“The underwear fell off the clothesline.” This is the first line—prosaic and to the point—of *Maiúscula*, the solo piece that Jacinto Lucas Pires wrote for a leading actress, Luísa Cruz, one of the most extraordinary of her generation. Marcos Barbosa directs it, thus renewing a long-standing collaboration with the playwright. In this monologue, Luísa Cruz plays Benedetta Croce, an actress of a certain age who receives a phone call from a director proposing a project called *Medea*. From there, she embarks on a face-to-face confrontation with herself, her past, and her future—not without a relentless sense of humor and self-deprecation. “In the mirror, my face reminds me of someone I once was.” Time stands still for this woman—a mother, divorced, unemployed, a boss—alone in a house that’s far too big. An actress/woman who, startled by the ancient “M” of Medea—Euripides’ masterpiece, which in this solo piece serves as an echo or a response in a living dialogue—embraces herself in all her “wisdom and insight”: “No, I don’t need you to look at me; I am a Woman with a Capital W.” But we want to look, Benedetta/Luísa; we want to bear witness to this Woman with a Capital “W.”