Subgénero: Historical
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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 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…
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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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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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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…
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Doctor Moraleda’s Murder (El asesinato del doctor Moraleda)
This play is set in the colonial era. In 1890, the Portuguese militarily advance on Angola and Mozambique with the excuse of the death of Dr. Moraleda, a scientist who was studying aboriginal people in the area. The Portuguese State officially appoints a fact-finding commission, although, at the same time, puts in charge Colonel da…
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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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Sea horses (Caballos de Mar)
The memories of more than thirty years come through Ignasi Delamo’s mind, Colonel of the Republican Army’s Medical Department, before drawing his last breath after being wounded. They are different fragments of his life around the “Sea Horses” house since he met in 1907 the aristocrat Violaine, who he loved in a platonic way as well as her daughter…
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The buzzing of the bees (El zumbido de las abejas)
The story happens from March 1868 to February 1875. Tomás comes back to take over the family business of votive offerings and candle making after studying in Madrid. He comes back with his friend Mateu, a sculptor and intellectual whom he makes partner. Both Tomás and Mateu share a republican ideology. Mateu wants to revamp…
