Subgénero: Melodrama
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Midnight games (Juegos de medianoche)
Santiago and Elena met each other in the cemetery while burying their respective partners. From that point on, they begin a new life together. Married again and after 3 years of passionate love, the marriage starts to fall apart. THEMES: Love, Death, Marriage, Passion, Heartbreak, Widowhood GENRE: Drama RELEVANT FACTS: Love, passion and weariness of…
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No turning back from this girl (La muchacha sin retorno)
A TV announcer that has always been a womanizer suddenly realizes that everything is starting to go downhill towards old age. Leticia, Carolina and Lucrecia, three of his former lovers, get together with him to remember old times and try to help him. But Josefa appears, a young woman who makes him regain excitement. THEMES: Seduction, Love, Existential…
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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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The man of dusk (El hombre del atardecer)
The play opposes the decline of the middle-aged and the splendor of youth. Amelia, Ernesto and Julia belong to the first group. The first two are cynical and conscious of the role their age makes them take on. Julia, on the contrary, is optimistic and still thinks she can inspire joyfulness. On the other side, Charly y Hermi are young, they leave…
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Storms don’t come back (Las tormentas no vuelven)
Gabriela is Juan’s secretary, a scatterbrained ethologist. She aspires, unsuccessfully, to repeat the long gone love story between the two of them. In a stormy night, the peace at Juan’s gets disturbed by the appearance of Ana, a half-naked young woman, chased by Pedro, a suspicious looking motorcyclist. Juan protects the young woman as she phones…
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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…
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Dinner for two (Cena para dos)
Berta is a free woman who invites two friends of hers to a romantic dinner. Both friends have their own insecurities: Emi has just discovered that her husband has been cheating on her, while Pedro is afraid of not keeping up with women’s desires because of his advanced age. The discovery of their ability to…
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Always in autumn (Siempre en otoño)
Alejandra, Constantina and Elena are three sisters that, reaching maturity, meet again years after being apart in their parents’ summer house, once their lives have turned around because of different circumstances. The reunion produced in them mature and contradictory sensations which take them to loving times and past quarrels, just like hilarious anecdotes and dramatic moments. …
