Género: Drama
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Lost city (La ciudad perdida)
Joaquim, an exile from the Civil War, wins a literary contest from his home town with a novel titled The Lost City. The town decides to bring him back as a citizen. Rafael, who also participated in the contest in which he ended up as a finalist, is a literature professor as well as a…
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The alchemist’s gaze (La mirada del alquimista)
The story is set at the end of the 18th Century and at the beginning of the 19th Century, in the course of a long and unnerving voyage of discovery. The Alchemist’s Gaze retakes one of the oldest and most perturbing literature myths: the myth of the doppelgänger. This journey is based on scientific skepticism;…
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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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The peace (Return to Athens) (La Paz (Retorno a Atenas))
In the year 411 BC, the Peloponnese War, that confronts the cities of Sparta and Athens, reaches the lands in the north of Greece. Trigeu, vine grower, has his properties in this region. He decides to stop the war because it in endangering his business. In order to do so, he has to travel to…
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The first in class (La primera de la clase)
One summer night, Olga shows up unexpectedly at Anna’s house, a former school mate, seeking for help. Olga, whose husband Enric is cheating on her, also has a lover, Jaume, Anna’s former boyfriend. All night long, these two very different women settle their accounts in a labyrinth of cheating and self-deception where the limits of…
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The princess of the desert (La princesa del desierto)
Nabih, a homeless man, tells a story to Hassan, a little boy. The story of the man is about Omar and Abdul, two young men who have to find the princess Fatima to prevent Ahmed´s ascension to the throne of Arwan. These two friends manage to contact with Laila, Fatima´s daughter. After this, the princess is…
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Maror: the rules of gender (Maror: las reglas del género)
The romantic novel becomes a crime novel It's winter and in an isolated summer sea house some family members get together to spend a few days: Isabel, famous best-selling fiction author, her husband, Pablo; their daughter, Esperanza, and Pilar, Isabel’s sister. The breaking news is that the protagonist wants to abandon her career as a…
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About to escape (Punto de fuga)
Paula is a young girl deemed to a grey life and with no expectation of fulfilling her dreams. She will gradually transform in the victim and main character of this drama, becoming a vampire. Maybe, she will end up destroying everyone around her, unless she escapes. THEMES: Youth, Escape, Frustration, Supernatural, Facing Failure GENRE: Drama,…
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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…
