Ten works necessary to understand the history of theater

The theater’s vitality allows reinterpreting tragic or comical storylines from every period, in a puzzling world full of fantasy that culminates in catharsis and establishes a tight bond with the audience, century after century.

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Poet in New York

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA, 1929-1930

García Lorca, author of the Romancero gitano [Gypsy Romance] and Bodas de sangre [Blood Wedding], dramatically concludes his past work to face his homosexuality in Poet in New York and redirects his attention towards negritude. New York fascinates him. “Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! The blood has no doors in your night from the face upwards”. Poet in New York is not conceived as a theatre play but it is indeed theater. Theater from yesterday, today and tomorrow. It is a “landscape whose crowd vomits”. I believe it is vital to bring Poet in New York back in stage.