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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Bohemian lights

RAMÓN DEL VALLE-INCLÁN, 1920

Grotesque: this is the deformed reality by the convex mirror. A protagonist, Max Estrella, in an absurd, night-time, brilliant and hungry Madrid. 50 characters walk around these Bohemian lights. And among them, Max Estrella, Don Latino and Pica Lagartos saying that “the world is controversy”, while Don Latino confirms that “Spain is grotesque”. Blind people, tired and sad women, dusky atmosphere, dark and nocturnal, and deep in the monstrosity of this country so-called Spain.