Etiqueta: Customs
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Quirós’ house (La casa de Quirós)
Mr. Gil de Quirós, the main character of the story, lives in a small town. He is a gentleman of old customs and proud of his lineage. He is a man with a complicated personality who behaves like a tyrant to everyone who is around him. The conflict appears in the story when Sol, Quirós’…
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The chaste Don José (El casto Don José)
Don José is a pious, chaste and single old man. Owner of a well-known chocolate factory, he lives his old days calmly and following his habits. However, Don José meets a woman and a great passion overcomes him, something that will change the state of everything. THEMES: Love, Money, Eroticism, Couples, Social Relations, Seduction, Sex,…
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God’s soul (Alma de Dios)
Eloisa is an orphan that runs away from a house where she is abused. She seeks refuge in the house of her aunt Marcelina and her cousin Irene. Also, she meets Agustin, a young man who she falls in love with. But she is victim of a ploy plotted by the aunt. Her cousin Irene…
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It’s forbidden in autumn (Prohibido en otoño)
This is a recreation of Pygmalion’s story. It is set in the 50’s but it could be set any time now. The main plot consists in the obsession a mature man develops for his pupil, a young girl from his same town. He is well-intentioned at first but ends up going crazy for her. She,…
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Out of mind (Fuera de quicio)
Set in an asylum, this play tells the love adventures and misfortunes of the interns called Rosa, Antoñita, Antonio and Juan while the director turns into a murderer and a spy, and the Mother Superior deals drugs. THEMES: Mental Illness, Drugs, Murder, Espionage, Adultery, Love GENRE: Comedy, Crime, Suspense, Mystery RELEVANT FACTS: An…
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Long live the impossible! or the stars’ accountant (¡Viva lo imposible! o el contable de estrellas)
A traditional family that breaks with conventions Don Sabino is a grey old-fashioned civil servant who, in pursuit of freedom, decides to break up with everything and joins, along with his children Palmira and Eusebio, a travelling circus. However, the wandering life is not what the family expected. Thus, they begin considering going back to…
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Sublime decision! (¡Sublime decisión!)
The battle of the sexes through a public window Florita is a housewife in the late nineteenth-century Spain. One day she decides to emancipate and try her luck in the working world. Her family, friends and boyfriend are scandalized. This is her "sublime decision": to work in the Public Administration. And she will work in a…
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The weaker sex has gone to the gym (El sexo débil ha hecho gimnasia)
This story, with sense of humor, recounts the integration of women into civil society, first, in the first half of the 19th century, then, in the second half of the 20th century. The love affairs and problems of an aunt and her nieces, belonging to the middle-class in 1846, happen again a hundred years later…
