Subgénero: Historical
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Mission to the deserted village (Misión al pueblo desierto)
During the Spanish Civil War, the visions of diverse characters, inside the Republican side, interweave. In the main storyline, Damian and his companion Plácido (who is […]
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The concert at Saint Ovide (El concierto de San Ovidio)
Probably the best and most moving play by Buero Vallejo In the years that preceded the French Revolution, there was a hospice for the blind and […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Meninas (Las Meninas)
Set in the Court of Felipe IV, the story is centered on the figure of the painter Diego Velázquez, who is involved in various court intrigues due to […]
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The cave (La caverna)
A young man from a bourgeois family accepts joining a revolutionary group attempting to rid Spain from the absolute power of Ferdinand VII. He is part […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]