Subgénero: Historical

  • 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 a painter), have the mission of protecting The Greco’s paintings, so that they are not either bombed or taken by the Nationals. The two main characters illustrate ideological differences…

  • A Dreamer for the People (Un soñador para un pueblo)

    The story is set in the Spanish 18th century, recreating Esquilache´s riot. The plot is centered on Marquis Esquilache, one of Carlos III’s ministers. Esquilache is a minister with an advanced ideology in tune with the Enlighten movement. He forwards a law that provokes some anxiety among the people of the country: a riot against…

  • 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 homeless in Paris. One day, Valindín, a rich trader, has an idea: putting together six blind men to play in a parodic orchestra. Completely unconscious of the authentic and…

  • The dream of reason (El sueño de la razón)

    Set in 1823, in Madrid, the work focuses on the last years of the life of the painter Francisco de Goya, his limitations provoked by the deafness and his relations with Leocadia. The spectator immerses himself in the epoch, political and social situation of Spain. The illness of deafness isolates Goya more every day. Moreover,…

  • 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 the moment before the shooting that ends the life of the journalist and recreates the most relevant moments of his life: the intrigues and power struggles in which he…

  • 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 is not a self-sacrificing woman; now, she is taken the lead since she hates Helen and Ulysses because of the twenty years she has spent weaving and unweaving. Ulysses…

  • 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 the creation of his masterpiece "Las Meninas". A thriller fantasy about the life of the most outstanding painter of his time and the events that surround his life in…

  • 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 of an armed group aiming to be the trigger of popular revolution backed by the army. His enterprise fails, all his comrades die and as the lone survivor, he…

  • 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…

  • 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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