Subgénero: Melodrama
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Miss Trevelez (La señorita de Trevélez)
Miss Trévelez tells the story that happens in a provincial capital, where a group of jokers form the Guasa Club, dedicated to play pranks and have fun at the expense of doing harm to others. One of those jokes is to let lady Trevélez, who is a neighbor of mature age, tasteless and not very…
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Turmoil (Desconcierto)
Alejandro is an orchestra conductor who lives exclusively for music and women. He lives with Lucía, who quit her career as an opera singer to become his lover and secretary. They have a tempestuous relationship. Alejandro is going to conduct the New Year’s concert in Vienna, as he meets a young journalist that makes him…
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The man from Central Park (El Hombre de Central Park)
Don Draper's prequel This is the story of a middle-aged businessman that has to go fortnightly to New York to attend his business. However, he prefers going to a hotel in the city to be with his lover. The main character is a Don Draper (“Madmen”): he lives a double life with little excess, but…
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The man in the Taj-Mahal (El Hombre de Taj Mahal)
A man over fifty looks back on his life seeking clues to explain his present. He talks about his father, a merchant who cheated on his wife with a neighbour, his eagerness to leave his hometown, his first trip that led him to the Taj-Mahal in India, his rise in the social ladder while he…
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How are you, dear? (¿Qué tal, cariño?)
The story begins from a scientific theory that says that at the moment of death, the neurons open all the memory archives trying to find an answer to the life’s journey. This is what happens to Gloria, who is in a coma and in her last moments, after being in a grave accident. In the…
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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…
