Etiqueta: Death
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Adventure in the grey (Aventura en lo gris)
After the war, a group of political refugees (Goldmann, Silvano, Ana, Isabel, Carlos, a peasant…) escapes from an imaginary country called Surelia. While staying in a hostel, Isabel is murdered while the rest of the group is sleeping. From this moment on, reality and dreams mix up. In an oneiric dimension where all of them…
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Doctor Moraleda’s Murder (El asesinato del doctor Moraleda)
This play is set in the colonial era. In 1890, the Portuguese militarily advance on Angola and Mozambique with the excuse of the death of Dr. Moraleda, a scientist who was studying aboriginal people in the area. The Portuguese State officially appoints a fact-finding commission, although, at the same time, puts in charge Colonel da…
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Tirant´s Triumph (El triunfo de Tirante)
Recreation of the Valencian medieval novel Tirant lo Blanc that presents a main character doubting when the time comes to accept his own death. Many moments of his past will be dramatized (parties and happenings in the English court, his triumphant return to Constantinople or the sensual moments with Carmesina) to remind him the sine…
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The poison of theatre (El veneno del teatro)
Paris, 1784. Gabriel de Beaumont has been invited to the palace of a famous marquis, an aristocrat known for his eccentricities. Once there, he is requested to perform a play written by the marquis, about Socrates’ death. Soon he discovers everything was a trap. The aristocrat wants to experiment on him the limits between reality…
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The key in the attic (La llave en el desván)
A Premonitory Nightmare Mario is a scientist who is absolutely ruined because they have stolen the formula of his big discovery. Besides, he has not overcome the death of his parents, even when he was a child when it happened. To make matters worse, his wife has left with her lover, Alfredo, the same person…
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The third word (La tercera palabra)
Pablo is a teenager who has always lived in the mountains away from civilization. After his father’s death, he moves in with his aunts and cousins. They hire Margarita in order to teach him how to read, write and everything he should already know at the age of 24. His family intentions are not totally…
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Three perfectly married women (Las tres perfectas casadas)
Three happy marriages, whose members, friends of youth, married the same day, celebrated their eighteenth anniversary all together as is their custom, but the absence of the master of ceremonies, a friend common to all of them, clouds the evening and provokes tension. This hardened bachelor has died in an accident and has left the…
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Trees Die Standing Tall (Los árboles mueren de pie)
"Do not see me fall. Dead inside, but standing tall. Like a tree." A married old couple spends their days regretting that their beloved grandson left. Mr. Balboa, in order to help with his wife’s sadness, fakes letters and pretends they are written by their grandson. One day, a real letter saying he is coming…
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The boat without a fisherman (La barca sin pescador)
How far are you willing to go for money? Ricardo Jordán makes a pact with the devil in order to obtain a lot of money; in exchange, he has to kill someone he does not know, somewhere far away. This could only happen via thought. Two years later, Ricardo starts the quest of his victim’s…
