Spanish Theater: Comedy, Drama, and Social Commentary

Are the dominant genres of comedy and drama escape political or ideological, two trends that are maintained in the subsequent stage. The theater comedy: humor intellectualized; Jardiel Poncela is a novelist and playwright. His theater is based on a nonsensical humor, ironic, unsentimental, futuristic, avant-garde roots. Conceives of drama as the realm of absurd situations implausible chains with atypical characters and humorous dialogues very intellectualized that foreshadow a critical view of reality. Heloise is under an almond / Miguel Mihura wrote plays and screenplays. His humor is based on the dislocation of language. Exhibits a different vision of society free from prejudice characters and marginal, faced with a world corny and conventional, which represents the order and decency. The grotesque and the avant-garde language related to Mihura with Serna. The critical view of society reminiscent of Beckett's theater of the absurd. Displays a current existential evolving towards social realism in the 1950s. Antonio Buero Vallejo testified theater began and commitment that raises conflicts of the society of his time, shows the reality of the war, then pulls the common people with their problems, while ignoring the reality oficial.En his theater works predominantly realistic, has a character problem in its public profile. Some of his best works combine realism and experimentalism, others are historical. In other parts include fantasy. He wrote a drama about the torture and guilt.

Alfonso Sastre is the foremost representative of social theater. He defends a social drama that is an instrument transformer stirrer and reality. In his work dominates the theme of oppression and social aspect predominates over the individual.

The Theater of the 1960s

The theater of the 1960s remain a critical view of reality, have a symbolic realista.Rasgos aesthetic issues of social criticism and complaint. The protagonists are often victims who have just defeated by social.La aesthetic environment tends towards new forms of expression: allegorical and symbolic, expressionist or farcical. They use violent language, torn and popular.Obras: The Inkwell, Carlos Muniz; The shirt, by Lauro Olmo and green fields of Eden, by Antonio Gala.

Theater of the 1970s

Theater of the 1970s definitely Liquid realism and takes to the testing of new theater-show dramáticas.En role of the literary text loses the benefit of the scenery. Blurring of characters and dramatic action. Allegorical and abstract language. Special effects and blurring the boundaries between certain independent géneros.Teatros: the TEI (Experimental Theater Independent Madrid)

Theater of the 1980s until the present

The author strengthens the theater and abandons the works of authors recover experimentalismo.Se exiles (Alberti) and there's a theater that is the subject of war. Earn a realistic scene works or parodic realism close to farce esperpéntica.tendencias: Theater of the traditional type. Fernando Fernan GomezBicycles are for summer, construction sites in the Civil War. Ay, Carmela! From Sinisterra. The work achieved success in cine.Teatro-farce. Pick up the grotesque elements of Valle-Inclan and the farce of Arniches, and often conflicting issues arise. The Vallecas estanquera Alfonso de Santos.Teatro experimental. Fura dels Baus. They have been instrumental in international festivals. Often the revision and reinterpretation of classic texts of any kind.