Etiqueta: Society

  • Miss Trevelez (La señorita de Trevélez)

    Miss Trévelez tells the story that happens in a provincial capital, where a group of jokers form the Guasa Club, dedicated to play pranks and have fun at the expense of doing harm to others. One of those jokes is to let lady Trevélez, who is a neighbor of mature age, tasteless and not very…

  • The Caciques (Los caciques)

    The major of Villalgancio will be up for anything to keep his position In the small town of Villalgancio, the corrupt politician Acilso Arrambla is a mayor and local cacique at the same time. He is notified that an inspector will arrive to analyze his administration and accounts. Following his natural tendency, he plans on buying…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Twenty years only (Veinte añitos)

    Pepe and Faustina are an old married couple that are close to the end of their lives. One day the Devil appears before them and offers them something difficult to reject: to bring back their youth. Having 20 years again, all the vicissitudes of that age make them wish to go back to being old. …

  • Minguez Family (La Familia Mínguez)

    Mr. Eusebio, an office worker, suffers from the mortal boredom of his marriage to Mrs. Encarnita, always worried for insignificant stuff and the defense of the establishment. Luisito, their son, rebels towards the behavior of his parents, but he may repeat the same mistakes, if not saved by some calamity, or even by love. He…

  • Margarita and men (Margarita y los hombres)

    Margarita is a young miserable typist because she thinks she is ugly. Not only that, she is run over by a car, leaving her disfigured. She subjects herself to a plastic surgery that turns her into the most beautiful and adored woman. However, her unhappiness does not go away since her relationships with the opposite sex…

  • The beautiful Rosita (Rosita la guapa)

    The protagonist, Rosa, does not think she is beautiful. Rosa’s suffering is due to her lack of self-confidence. But the problem is going to be solved with a game of masks that will remit the spectator to the carnival traditions.    THEMES: Beauty, Society, Gambling, Frustration, Hate GENRE: Drama   RELEVANT FACTS:  Neville won the…

  • Portraits of love and humor (Cuadros de amor y humor, al fresco)

    The play tells 30 short scenes represented by four actors, who deal with situations of love and humor. It is a portrait of our society at the same time as it presents daily conflicts. The extraordinary complexity that characterizes human relationships and feelings, their social ritualization, the dynamics of behaviors, the forces that dominate them,…

  • 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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