Una venjança com n'hi ha poques + Es rifa un home! + Les cartes

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Three early 20th century women playwrights of Catalan theatre that deserve to be rediscovered


Three plays by three multidisciplinary creators in which the facet of women playwrights coexists quite naturally with that of other fields such as the visual arts, music or journalism.


In Una venjança com n’hi ha poques, a “tragedy in one act”, the final meeting between a rich bourgeois man and his lover enables Lluïsa Denís to depict the violence concealed in the unequal relations between the sexes. The playwright published her only two plays in 1931, the year of the death of her husband Santiago Rusiñol, with whom Denís’ second play, Els caçadors furtius, explicitly dialogues.


In Es rifa un home!, a “satirical note in one act” from 1935 and the first play by Rosa Maria Arquimbau, a ladies’ club organises a draw to adopt an attractive young aristocrat who has lost everything because of the advent of the Republic. In the Teatre Romea and the Teatre Poliorama the company Vila-Daví premiered three other plays by the writer during the Spanish Civil War but her work as a whole remained unseen.

Les cartes is one of Víctor Català’s most amazing plays and was published a year after the death of Caterina Albert. In this monologue, presented as a theatrical experiment by "an actor well known by the audience," an anonymous woman tries to explain her misfortunes with a narrative and linguistic spontaneity that constantly puts the theatrical codes in tension, and anticipates the tragicomic irony of Mercè Rodoreda’s theatre.


Una venjança com n'hi ha poques, de Lluïsa Denís

Direcció: Ester Villamor

Es rifa un home!, de Rosa Maria Arquimbau

Direcció: Marta Aran

Les cartes, de Víctor Català

Direcció: Clara Manyós

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• Show related to the Women Pioneers Epicentre