Etiqueta: Religion
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Father Cigarette (El padre pitillo)
Don Froilán is a priest in a small village, in which he is known as “Father Cigarette”, as he always has a lit cigarette in his mouth. Given his good-natured disposition, he sees himself one day taking in a deviant girl called Rosita, kicked from her house by his step-father Aniceto after losing her honor…
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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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Out of mind (Fuera de quicio)
Set in an asylum, this play tells the love adventures and misfortunes of the interns called Rosa, Antoñita, Antonio and Juan while the director turns into a murderer and a spy, and the Mother Superior deals drugs. THEMES: Mental Illness, Drugs, Murder, Espionage, Adultery, Love GENRE: Comedy, Crime, Suspense, Mystery RELEVANT FACTS: An…
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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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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…
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The Miller Woman of Arcos (La molinera de Arcos)
This dramedia is about the abuse of power, about the Church as an institution, the government, the military and the emancipation of women. During a wedding, a minstrel tells a legend and the characters from the wedding start turning into the characters of the legend. The tale told by the minstrel is about how a…
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The return of God (La tournée de Dios)
This book tells the story of God’s visit to the Earth, and how two easily distinguishable zones appear: the divine and the human. This contrast generates comic situations, such as the violent confrontation between God and men, or the situation of this Supreme Being having to face everyday life. THEMES: Religion, Travel, Rivalry, Power Struggle, Everyday Life,…
