Spanish theatre 1920-1995 : strategies in protest and imagination. Pt. 1/ [issue editor: Maria M. Delgado

Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Contents......Page 3 Acknowledgements......Page 4 Editorial......Page 6 ‘The Impossible Theatre’: The Spanish Stage at the Time of the Avant-Garde......Page 12 Towards an Art Theatre......Page 14 Towards a National Theatre......Page 19 Experimental Theatre and University Theatre......Page 21 Models......Page 23 The Anti-Realist Polemic and The Reassertion of a Plastic Theatre......Page 24 The Cinematic Model......Page 26 Puppet Epics......Page 28 The Poetic and The Popular......Page 30 The Theatre as Poetry Incarnate......Page 32 Conclusion......Page 35 Valle-Inclán, Spanish Precursor of the Absurdist Mode......Page 38 Drama, Religion and Republicanism: Theatrical Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War......Page 54 Beyond Lorca......Page 68 References......Page 86 Notes on Contributors......Page 88 Contemporary Theatre Review......Page 90 Index......Page 98 This article aims to look at the performance groups that sprung up in the latter years of the Franco regime known as 'Teatro Independiente' (Independent Theatre).