Etiqueta: Love
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The man from Central Park (El Hombre de Central Park)
Don Draper's prequel This is the story of a middle-aged businessman that has to go fortnightly to New York to attend his business. However, he prefers going to a hotel in the city to be with his lover. The main character is a Don Draper (“Madmen”): he lives a double life with little excess, but…
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And now what? (¿Y ahora qué?)
The main character is a solvent middle-aged man who loves women, nice cars and parties. One day, he meets a fascinating woman that will change his life, a judge married to a syndicalist. THEMES: Couples, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Seduction GENRE: Comedy RELEVANT FACTS: This comedy was a huge success when it premiered. Between…
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Bankrupt (TV movie)
Film based on the play by Jordi Casanovas Seven characters experience something supernatural in the dining room of an old flat; while outside there’s an international bankrupt situation. What triggers the surreal situation: the possibility of travelling across space through a “dimensional hole” that has always existed under the dining table at the grandmother’s flat.
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No turning back from this girl (La muchacha sin retorno)
A TV announcer that has always been a womanizer suddenly realizes that everything is starting to go downhill towards old age. Leticia, Carolina and Lucrecia, three of his former lovers, get together with him to remember old times and try to help him. But Josefa appears, a young woman who makes him regain excitement. THEMES: Seduction, Love, Existential…
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Violins and trumpets (Violines y trompetas)
This play, very important during the Spanish Transition, tells the life, day by day, of three chamber musicians who have not only the same profession but also the same love interests. The play was very important in Spain as it turned around the repression on sex, desires and frustrations that existed for forty years under…
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Forever is not the whole life (Siempre no es toda la vida)
The play looks over three stages in the life of a married couple: The past (adolescence and happy engagement), the present (the problems of the married life) and the future (distant feelings but united by social conventionalism). THEMES: Love, Marriage, Adolescence, Youth, Society GENRE: Dramedy RELEVANT FACTS: Couple’s play between past, present and future…
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Save the dolphins (Salvad a los delfines)
A divorced couple meets after seven years split at their daughter’s wedding. She has built a new life with another man. The play develops the misunderstandings and anecdotic situations of this triangle to which is added the daughter and her fiancée, a Thai man who aspires to go the Faeroe Islands and save dolphins. THEMES:…
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Fright (Las orejas del lobo)
Irene had a lover but he abandoned her to become a priest. She married another man who did not take care of her to become a politician and try to become a minister taking advantage of a rebuilding. Moreover, her mother suffered infidelities from the father and probably caused the car accident in which both died.…
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The man of dusk (El hombre del atardecer)
The play opposes the decline of the middle-aged and the splendor of youth. Amelia, Ernesto and Julia belong to the first group. The first two are cynical and conscious of the role their age makes them take on. Julia, on the contrary, is optimistic and still thinks she can inspire joyfulness. On the other side, Charly y Hermi are young, they leave…
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Storms don’t come back (Las tormentas no vuelven)
Gabriela is Juan’s secretary, a scatterbrained ethologist. She aspires, unsuccessfully, to repeat the long gone love story between the two of them. In a stormy night, the peace at Juan’s gets disturbed by the appearance of Ana, a half-naked young woman, chased by Pedro, a suspicious looking motorcyclist. Juan protects the young woman as she phones…
