The Jeweler's Shop
Work written by Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, which reflects on the process of human life in comparison to the work of a goldsmith, who carefully shapes and molds an object to give it form...
Literature - Theater
A year in the life of William Shakespeare: 1599
The year 1599, in Elizabeth I’s England, was not an easy one; it coincided with the sending of an army to crush the rebellion of the Catholic Tyrone in Ireland. They faced the threat of a new naval attack...
Dark renaissance
The 16th-century England was marked by a ruthless, violent, and egocentric monarchy, where anyone could be a traitor or a spy. It is not surprising that it provided so much material for scripts and novels....
Saint Joan
If this drama by G. B. Shaw convinces us of anything, it is that the saint is the freest of human beings. All others appear bound by their fears. Joan also fears the stake, but it is a perfectly natural...
Malvaloca: a drama in three acts
This takes place in a nursing home run by nuns, and Malvaloca is the typical “dishonored” woman with a heart of gold. She is also the typical Andalusian, full of wit and charm. In other words, just the...
Sir Thomas More
The Book of Sir Thomas More is a play written by several authors, including Shakespeare, focusing on the final years of Thomas More’s life. This historical drama, composed around 1600, faced state...
Antigone
Anouilh presents an Antigone in an existentialist and therefore contemporary key: so contemporary that he places the story—somewhat forcibly—in our time, with coffee and cars. The action follows a line very...
The Oresteia
It is worth reading the entire trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides), because the three plays form a much tighter unit than what we see in other Greek tragedies. If you read Antigone or...
Pygmalion
After a bet, the professor of phonetics Henry Higgins, passes the humble flower seller Eliza Doolittle for a duchess. The woman rebels to be used in this way, and the professor realices that he must give...
Birds of all kind
Wajdi Mouawad, born in Beirut in 1968, has spent many years in exile, living between France and Canada. He is a playwright, theater director, and novelist.
The work in question, divided into four...