Etiqueta: Postwar period
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The family album (El álbum familiar)
THEMES: Post-War, Social Relation, Politics, Society, Family, 40s GENRE: Drama, Historical The play takes shape as a family album in which there are photos and past experiences. This gives the author the opportunity to rebuild the Spanish post-war society through memories and dreams. The character relives that period during which he builds his personality and his…
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Skylight (El tragaluz)
In the future world, it is carried out an experiment to travel back in time. In the past to which the experiment is carried out, there are two brothers, Vicente and Mario, separated after the war. Over the years, the former has a good social position and the latter is miserable. The interest of both…
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Judges in the night (Jueces en la noche)
Juan Luis Palacios was a minister during the Franco Regime but has known how to adapt in the democratic era, turning into a respectable member of the Parliament, married to Julia. However, the phantom of the past atrocities is always around and his marriage is in crisis. In this context, Juan Luis discovers that Ginés Pardo,…
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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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Silence in black (Silencio de negra)
The action takes place in France, during the years of the World War II onwards until 1943, and from 1946 to 1947, two historical moments that will gradually confront and complement each other. The protagonist of the story, Phillipe Batelier, is a musician that has collaborated with the German occupants with his silence, with his refusal of…
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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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Benedicat
Written by Josep Lluís and Rodolf Sirera, Benedicat is set in two historical moments and in two different places: Croatia’s Kingdom in the 40's (then a puppet regime for Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany), and Italy in the 70’s. In the first of the periods we will attend to the triumph of Croatian Utasas’ fanaticism, which will…
