Etiqueta: Death
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Lady and Mistress (Dueña y señora)
A convoluted love story Fernando is a young man from wealthy family origins who has fallen in love with Toña, the beautiful family’s housekeeper. Their passion leads to the birth of a child. However, Fernando gives in to the family pressure and marries Laura, a girl of his same social status. She convinces Toña to…
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The words on the sand (Las palabras en la arena)
The work is based on a passage from the New Testament in which Jesus surprises a woman in a situation of adultery. Asaph and his friends, his wife, Naomi, and Phenicia, the maid of the woman, are witnesses to the episode of the adulterous woman. After the departure of Jesus of Nazareth, people read the…
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Before dawn (Madrugada)
After her husband’s death, Amalia starts asking herself about the mysterious suffering and hiding attitudes he had months before dying. In order to find an answer to these questions, she gathers in the house all of Mauricio’s friends and family. They answer one by one that they defamed her in front of her husband. Finally,…
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Caiman (Caimán)
It narrates the story of Rosa, the protagonist, a mother desperate to find her missing daughter who fell through a hole left when a work was paralyzed after the bankruptcy of the company in charge. However, the rescue teams cannot find the girl. Therefore, Rosa lives in a constant lie, convinced that the girl will…
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In the burning darkness (En la ardiente oscuridad)
In a learning institution for blind people, a group of sightless friends live together and seem to be happy. To this place comes Ignacio, who begins to spread his pessimism to the rest. Despite the attempts of Carlos, suspicious of the friendship between the newcomer and his girlfriend Juana, Ignacio does not manage to get…
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The princess of the desert (La princesa del desierto)
Nabih, a homeless man, tells a story to Hassan, a little boy. The story of the man is about Omar and Abdul, two young men who have to find the princess Fatima to prevent Ahmed´s ascension to the throne of Arwan. These two friends manage to contact with Laila, Fatima´s daughter. After this, the princess is…
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Maror: the rules of gender (Maror: las reglas del género)
The romantic novel becomes a crime novel It's winter and in an isolated summer sea house some family members get together to spend a few days: Isabel, famous best-selling fiction author, her husband, Pablo; their daughter, Esperanza, and Pilar, Isabel’s sister. The breaking news is that the protagonist wants to abandon her career as a…
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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…
