Etiqueta: Love
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You and me we are three (Tú y yo somos tres)
Manolita is a young woman that is exchanging letters with a stranger, Rodolfo. They are very much in love, they even marry each other in the distance, through power of attorney. When Rodolfo appears in person, Manolita receives shocking news: he has a Siamese twin. THEMES: Passion, Love, Deceit, Marriage, Youth GENRE: Comedy, Romance …
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You have the eyes of a femme fatale (Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal)
Sergio is a ladies’ man that likes to collect female conquests and never falls in love. Elena is the first woman that rejects him. She is about to marry an old man that will make her his heir. The old man’s family does not really agree so they ask Sergio to win Elena’s heart and,…
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Thieves are honorable people (Los ladrones somos gente honrada)
The play unfolds around a white-collar robbery in the bourgeois home of recently married Daniel and Herminia. Daniel is a former thief who fell in love with Herminia when preparing to rob her parent’s home. This has made Daniel’s former partners to seek revenge and plan to rob them. Meanwhile, new characters come into play,…
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Water, oil and gasoline (Agua, aceite y gasolina)
Mario starts to act crazy after being deceived by his former lover, Maria Leticia: they were planning on running away together, they fix a date in a gas station and she never shows up. Mario’s friends are very concerned for his behavior, so they make a plan: a girl that looks like Maria Leticia will…
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The love of cats and dogs (El amor del gato y del perro)
Aurelia is an innocent young girl who looks for answers to life. She ends up in Ramiro´s house, a famous writer that looks for a meaning of such concepts as love or happiness. Having several discussions about a variety of themes, including the relationship between cats and dogs, they say goodbye, having only one thing…
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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…
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It’s dangerous to lean out (Es peligroso asomarse al exterior)
A young woman decides to accept the promise of marriage of three suitors, since the conjunction of the three would form the perfect gentleman ideal for the girl. The problem is that the trio is bound by kinship ties. When discovering the truth, the young woman decides to renounce the love of her three pretenders…
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Titania
Matilde, the main character of the story and a widow of a famous writer, falls in love with Benigno, a poor and illiterate man. People from her social environment call Matilde “Titania”, comparing her destiny to the destiny of the Shakespearian character from A Midsummer Night's Dream, who falls in love with a young workman…
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Occidental Vestal (La vestal de occidente)
This story is about Queen Elizabeth I of England and her complicated and tempestuous relations with Robert Devereux, II Earl of Essex. THEMES: Love, Treason, Jealousy, Monarchy, Social Relations, Society GENRE: Drama, Melodrama, Historical RELEVANT FACTS: Benavente won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1922. He treated all the theatrical genres and developed a broad…
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Embittered (…Y amargaba)
The story is centered on the career of a young playwright who has already achieved some success. The plot thickens when suspicion and slander arise from the admiration his mother-in-law has toward him. THEMES: Love, Art, Youth, Family, Work, Love Triangle GENRE: Drama, Melodrama RELEVANT FACTS: In 1963 it was adapted for TV program “Primera fila”, directed…
