Antonio Buero Vallejo

Historia de una escalera

La fundación

El tragaluz

La fundación

Un soñador para un pueblo

La tejedora de sueños / Llegada de los dioses

Carlos Gorostiza

In the author's own words his play "aims to set down within a realistic framework, so necessary to the theatre, a nucleus of problems and passions involving man in general, and not blind people in particular." The physical blindness of the depicted characters is only a motive or pretext for presenting the limitations we all share as human beings. Accordingly, the play must be understood as a sketch of the tragedy of man and his destiny, a problem which again is acquiring legitimacy and urgency, outstepping from the serious Spanish theatre studies into the surrounding reality. Two aspects are set down as intentionally dominant within the plan of Buero Vallejo's work. One is the social relationship, a mixture of free and forced situations, which arestablished between a strong individuality whose reasoning and frustration conflict with the reasoning and passion of the community. The other involves the tension of the visionary, the yearning for "light" and the belief in it which occasionally distinguishes the people of genuine religious feelings facing the material interests of the majority.

En la ardiente oscuridad

Lázaro en el laberinto

drama en tres actos

Historia de una escalera, clásicos hispánicos, ESO. Material auxiliar

Complemented by an introduction to the playwright's life and work, commentary on the plays, and photographs, a collection of four tragic plays by the late Spanish dramatist includes Story of a Stairway, Before Dawn, The Basement Window, and his final work, Mission to the Deserted Village. Simultaneous.

Four Tragedies of Conscience (1949-1999)

Antonio Buero-Vallejo

Obra completa: Teatro

Translations of four complete dramas by critically acclaimed contemporary Spanish playwrights.

Plays

Spain

Comedia en Tres Actos

Hoy Es Fiesta

William Luther Shelnutt

A Translation and Critical Study of Historia de Una Escalera by Antonio Buero Vallejo

Translation of Buero-Vallejo's play that draws on the painting of the same name by Diego Velasquez.

A Fantasia in Two Parts

Las Meninas

El estreno de "Las Meninas" tuvo lugar en el 9 de diciembre de 1960, en el teatro Español de Madrid; en el mismo escenario, veintiún años antes, había obtenido el éxito que lo consagró como el innovador de la dramaturgia española de posguerra, con su Historia de una escalera. Con el texto sobre Velázquez, Buero mostraba un nuevo ejemplo del buen hacer literario y dramático que en su ya entonces amplia trayectoria había venido mostrando. Buero inauguró una fórmula nueva de abordar el tema de la historia en el teatro, de forma que el drama histórico cubre dos metas: la de recuperar un ayer conflictivo y olvidado, y la de reflexionar sobre acciones y comportamientos que, por ser inherentes al hombre o a la sociedad, son intemporales. Así en "Las Meninas," Velázquez se convierte en el receptor que contempla el dolor humano y las injusticias sociales; los problemas que surgen del enmascaramiento de la realidad por los tópicos y engaños vigentes, y la encrucijada de la responsabilidad del artista, del intelectual ante todo.

David Johnston

It was Buero's Historia de una escalera (1949) which restored serious and worthwhile drama, virtually at a stroke, to the beleaguered post-Civil War Spanish stage. Since then, Buero has premiered over twenty-five full length plays in Spain, and has seen his theatre translated into most of the world's major languages.

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