Etiqueta: Past
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The detonation (La detonación)
Mariano José de Larra, one of the writers of Spanish Romanticism, commits suicide after being abandoned by his lover, Dolores Armijo. The action takes place in the moment before the shooting that ends the life of the journalist and recreates the most relevant moments of his life: the intrigues and power struggles in which he…
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The weaver of dreams (La tejedora de sueños)
This recreation of Homer’s Odyssey relates the adventures of Penelope, loving wife of Ulysses, whose return from the Trojan War she is waiting for. Buero’s Penelope is not a self-sacrificing woman; now, she is taken the lead since she hates Helen and Ulysses because of the twenty years she has spent weaving and unweaving. Ulysses…
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Having to leave you (La partida)
The play dramatizes two epic moments in the history of the city of Alicante: one during the 19th century (after the victory of Ferdinand VII’s absolutism in 1823); and the other, during the last moths of the Spanish Civil War. Lluís, a republican intellectual, is the author of a romantic drama that shows how his…
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My Gloria (Gloria mía)
¿Can you escape from the past? When Jose Centella is about to die, he tells the story of his life to a friend. His story begins after abandoning his home town as he travels to the Colombian jungle. There, he joins the guerrillas and the story takes us to its hidden camps. We will witness armed…
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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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Our Natacha (Nuestra Natacha)
Amongst a series of students, most of them serious, hardworking and committed (except Lalo, whose only ambition is to never pass exams and enjoy university life), Natalia Valdés, Natacha, the first woman to become a Doctor in Pedagogy in Spain. She hides her story to her companions, for she is an orphan and abandoned, and…
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It Is Forbidden to Commit Suicide in Spring (Prohibido suicidarse en primavera) (TV Series / Film))
This fantastic work portrays the "Home of the Suicidal" a clinic created by Dr. Ariel, who descends from a family in which men commit suicide when they begin to lose their youth. Two reporters (Chloe and Fernando) arrive to the clinic by mistake, who with their joy and passion for life transform in a radical…
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Fragant simplicity (La sencillez fragante)
A comedy writer confesses to his novelist friend that he is going to leave his wife because she does not partake in his intellectual and literary life. In order to dissuade him, the novelist will tell him his own experience about the ideal companion, tender and sweet, that he abandoned thanks to the pressure from…
