Etiqueta: Marriage
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The right arm (El brazo derecho)
A government official’s advisor becomes his right-hand man and starts to advise him in each and every political event. However, this magnificent relationship becomes affected when the advisor starts to meddle with his boss’ private life, expecting to marry his nephew to the politician’s daughter. THEMES: Friendship, Ambition, Social Climbing, City, High Class, Social Class,…
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No offence, Beatrix (No te ofendas, Beatriz)
Beatrix and Javier are a couple that does not love each other. In the spring of her youth, Beatrix’ parents make her get married to a broke aristocrat. It is a convenience marriage, organized by their respective high-class families (one of them completely broke). Javier and Beatrix, friends since childhood and pressured by their parents, have to…
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The Caciques (Los caciques)
The major of Villalgancio will be up for anything to keep his position In the small town of Villalgancio, the corrupt politician Acilso Arrambla is a mayor and local cacique at the same time. He is notified that an inspector will arrive to analyze his administration and accounts. Following his natural tendency, he plans on buying…
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Oscar and Sherlock (Oscar y Sherlock)
The play begins with Miss Alice Carrington, clearly pregnant, waiting in the altar with her father and the priest to get married to Oscar Sheville. Suddenly, a shot is heard far away and Philip Calwright comes to the church to announce that Oscar has been murdered. Following these events, Sherlock arrives to the mansion of…
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And now what? (¿Y ahora qué?)
The main character is a solvent middle-aged man who loves women, nice cars and parties. One day, he meets a fascinating woman that will change his life, a judge married to a syndicalist. THEMES: Couples, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Seduction GENRE: Comedy RELEVANT FACTS: This comedy was a huge success when it premiered. Between…
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Forever is not the whole life (Siempre no es toda la vida)
The play looks over three stages in the life of a married couple: The past (adolescence and happy engagement), the present (the problems of the married life) and the future (distant feelings but united by social conventionalism). THEMES: Love, Marriage, Adolescence, Youth, Society GENRE: Dramedy RELEVANT FACTS: Couple’s play between past, present and future…
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Save the dolphins (Salvad a los delfines)
A divorced couple meets after seven years split at their daughter’s wedding. She has built a new life with another man. The play develops the misunderstandings and anecdotic situations of this triangle to which is added the daughter and her fiancée, a Thai man who aspires to go the Faeroe Islands and save dolphins. THEMES:…
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Let’s live today (Vivamos hoy)
In a medical checkup, a middle-aged woman is diagnosed with a brain tumor and only two months to live. Her husband, who had been distanced for some time, tries to make up with her to make her happy for her remaining time and leaves his lover. However, the tests happen to have been from a…
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Fright (Las orejas del lobo)
Irene had a lover but he abandoned her to become a priest. She married another man who did not take care of her to become a politician and try to become a minister taking advantage of a rebuilding. Moreover, her mother suffered infidelities from the father and probably caused the car accident in which both died.…
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Witches (Brujas) (Film)
Old friendships, new betrayals. Five old Friends from a boarding school reunite fifteen years after their graduation. Now, they are beautiful thirty-years-old women with good social positions. Three of them are already married, and the other two single ones have managed to have an enviable life on their own: one is a writer, the other…
