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L'observador implacable: vint anys de teatre català
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1989, Núm. 30
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Aquest treball parla del seu testimoni quotidià, de la seva capacitat d’observació, del valor quasi notarial de les notes que traduïen aquelles observacions i que certifiquen vint anys de teatre català.
Abans de l’aparició ...
«Mary d’Ous», un punt d’inflexió
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1983, Núm. 22
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<p>This work is a compilation of the results of a seminar made by the Department of Theatrical Sciences of the lnstitut del Teatre of Barcelona about the “Analysis of shows recorded in video”; it takes part in the effort, more and more widespread all over the world, to bestow on the theatrical criticism, as it is called nowadays, its own and true statute of independent and theoretical reflection.</p>
<p>We have chosen Mary d'Ous, a show by Els Joglars, because it is the topmost point of a theatrical conception based on the absence of a plot and also the last one of this kind of shows. In fact, after Mary d'Ous, Els Joglars changed completely. Alias Serrallonga, their following show, belongs no more to the same universe.</p>
<p>We believe that Mary d'Ous is the most current show of Els Joglars because it is the one which makes most clear the present needs of the dramatic criticism and which gives us more reasons and more images to try to overcome them.</p>
<p>We reproduce here a fragment of the text written by Els Joglars to hand it out: “Mary d'Ous: Variations on two themes. Show begum in Pruït (Barcelona) in June 1972 and finished in Barcelona at the beginning of December of the same year. The formal purpose of this show can be summarized as follows: it constitutes an attempt to obtain a maximum of scenic efficiency, using a minimum of elements related both to the plot and to the scenography. The show is based on a series of improvisations and studies made by the actors on the generic theme of the musical arrangement transposed to the dramatic process (canon, fugue, counterpoint, variations on themes, etc.).”</p>...
Reflexions sobre el fenomen de la «performance»
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1988, Núm. 29
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<p>lt has always been difficult to define the performance, just because of its character, its originality and its interest: multiplicity, mobility and polymorphy. So, we could say that it is rather a kind of spirit related to a precise period than a kind of artistic work. One of the most suitable ways of analyzing that phenomenon from a personal point of view is approaching it personally, contacting directly the main protagonists of the accionist movements during the seventies.</p>
<p>After an analysis of the different key moments of the development of the performance, concerning the dates and the geographical locations, it is necessary to look over its close ties with theatre, which will give rise to such artists as Hermano Nitsch, whose activity is characterized by the absence of aspecific support. Nevertheless, there is one point where performance detaches itself from theatre: in the perfomance is the artist himself who puts in show. It is necessary to eliminate, both in theatre and painting or sculpture, all that means a return to the matter, to the technical skill. The means is the artist who devotes himself in public to a real act, neither simulated nor dramatized, notas an actor but as person who acts.</p>...
Fluxus & Zaj
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1988, Núm. 29
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aquest text presenta els moments més actius del grup FLUXUS durant la primera meitat dels anys seixanta. Després de fer un repàs dels noms més significatius, les actituds, els manifests ...
El quadern de direcció d’«Otel·lo», de William Shakespeare, espeblert per Konstantin Stanislavski
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1983, Núm. 22
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<p>This article is a compilation of the conclusions of a seminar where the contents of the direction notebook which Stanislavsky wrote up in Nice in 1929 were analysed in order to direct the group Art's Theatre of Moscow in its play Othello by Shakespeare. After the issue of the notebook' s French edition (Mise en Scene d'Othello. Éditions du Seuil. Paris, 1973), the seminar tried to take out from it the most interesting aspects related to the theatre. Thanks to the accurate instructions given by the master to his group Art's Treatre, the seminar was able to dissect the essential and constant elements of Stanislavsky's work from the text by Shakespeare. The first part of that article, entitled “Directing actors is a dramatic art”, explains the formal keys of the notebook and analyses its dramatic deal, the criterion followed to omit certain parts of the original text, the scenographic conception and the way to deal with the characters. That analysis reveals Stanislavsky's way of adapting Shakespeare to his method of directing actors, which, in short, is equivalent to bringing tragedy to the drama's field. The second part, entitled “Advices given by the master”, emphasizes sorne fragments of the direction notebook of Othello, which can be considered excellent and practical lessons in the field of the self-control of the actor's energy in the performance.</p>...
«Accions» i La Fura dels Baus
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1986, Núm. 28
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<p>La Fura dels Baus has gone across the Iberian Peninsula performing Accions and it has reached Argentine. People has thought that the group was bom with this show but that is not true. We should know its history. La Fura dels Baus appears in 1979 and in 1982 is reorganized. Its first actions have taken place in the streets of Sitges in 1983. Nowadays La Fura is composed of ten members and they define themselves as a theatre-music cooperative. One of the writings signed by the group is entitled “Manifest canalla” and reads as follows: «every action is a practical exercice, an agressive performance against the audience's passivity». Accions is a show which has been constructed in an empiric way: its plasticity is a combination of both painting and sculpture. They have never started from an academic idea to resolve plastic questions. Pyrotechnics are an important element in the show. In Accions there is neither actors nor characters but people perfoming actions. You can only talk about it in full details after having seen the show several times.</p>
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Xavier Fàbregas i el teatre valencià entre els dos pròlegs de l'«Homenatge a Florentí Montfort»
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1989, Núm. 30
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En la segona edició —primera íntegra—de l’obra Homenatge a Florentí Montfort, d’en Josep Lluís i Rodolf Sirera, considerada el punt de partida del nou teatre valencià, s’inclouen dos pròlegs d’en Xavier Fàbregas, que va ...
Bibliografia Teatral Catalana, 1982-1983
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1985, Núm. 26
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Fàbregas: la necessitat de lluitar, la vocació de saber (aproximació a un compromís intel·lectual)
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1989, Núm. 30
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L’esperit reservat d’en Fàbregas constituí en bona part l’actitud que el personatge adoptà per defensar una independència radical respecte a moviments i grups que conformaven el seu entorn. En Fàbregas s’«alinea amb les ...
Qüestions preliminars a la semiòtica teatral
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1984, Núm. 25
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<p>This article tries to shed light, by going over a series of texts, on whether it is possible or legitimate to make a semiotic analysis of the theatre and, at the same time, to delimit the relevance —the nature, so to speak— of the theatrical phenomenon. In the first part of the work —Theatre and Communication— there is an analysis of objections to theatre semiotic based on what may be defined as Panlinguistic Reductionism. This identifies language and communication, tongue and code, in a tautological way and considers double articulation to be essential in order to speak of language (Mounin, La Communication Théatrale, 1969). Metz, Eco and above all Ruffini (who defines the concept of Code by taking up Prieto's notions of sematic and noetic fields) expose the contradictions and errors implicit in mechanical, a priori transpositions of linguistic methods and notions to other semiotic fields. Mounin considers the relationship between stage and public to be one of stimulation but not of communication. But this objection stands on an erroneous base, since what is defined as «transposition among codes» really means «transposition between noetic fields with different codes».</p>
<p>The second part —The Object of Theatrical Semiotics: from the Text to the Performance— certifies the theatre’s complexity and code-variety or, as De Marinis says, the multidimensionality and heterogeneity of the theatrical phenomenon or again, as Marthes says, the theatre’s “informational polyphony”. Various works are analysed which, starting from the above-mentioned panlinguistic reductionism, reduce the semiotic analysis of the theatre to an analysis of the written text: Ingarden (who reduces the essence of the theater to the whitten text), Jansen (who considers the text as an invariant and the performance as a variant), Pagnini (who gives to the text the stature of profound structure and to the performance that of superficial structure), Gullí-Pugliatti (who considers the written text to be a metatext that describes the performance). After defending the relevance of the performance, a semiotics of transdisciplinary theater capable of avoiding panlinguistic reductionism is proposed.</p>...
Mestres Quadreny, un compositor per als confins teatrals de la música
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1983, Núm. 22
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<p>Interview with Josep Mestres Quadreny, a Catalan and postrnodern cornposer, where there are included all the different aspects of his musical training between 1945 and 1955; he refers both to his country's situation and to other Catalan contemporary rnusicians. Mestres Quadreny also rnakes a historical and sociological analysis of the traditional genders of musical theatre, such as opera, ballet and «zarzuela» (a particular Spanish version of the German sing-spiel) and a personal reflection both on the present experirnentation in the field of postmodern music (electronic music and “aléatoire” music) and on the limits of the musical script. He devotes a great part of that interview to explain in detail some of his experiences together with Joan Brossa, a Catalan and postmodern poet and playwright, on the use of the elements of the traditional concert in the theatre, a field of the postmodern show where we can consider themselves the pioneers.</p>...
Xavier Fàbregas, historiador del teatre català modern
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1989, Núm. 30
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A partir del 1966, Xavier Fàbregas, va iniciar un pla de recerca de base històrica sobre el teatre català modern orientant-la a sistematitzar, classificar y redefinir en termes ideològics i literaris la immediata tradició ...
Lucas Fernández: una retòrica afectiva per a la passió
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1986, Núm. 28
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«Performance»: una visió actual nord-americana
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1988, Núm. 29
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<p>RoseLee Goldberg's book Performance; Live Art 1909 to the Present, published in 1979 indicated in its closing chapter that performance art was moving more and more into the realm of entertaintment, using forms such as cabaret, television sitcoms and rock n'roll as the basis for new work, away from the more esoteric and often paradoxical work of the seventies, with its insistence on ideas over product, and concept over commonly accepted professional execution. Indeed, as this extract from the update of Ms. Goldberg's book Performance (plublished in the fall of 1987) shows, her predictions for the eighties were remarkably accurate. The new generations have created a body of work that is obsessed with the popular media. Indeed, the old cry by artists to break clown the barriers between life and art has, in their work, meant the breakdown between art and the media, often referred to as one between High art and Low. Ms. Goldberg describes the theatrical and highly professional mood of eighties performance, concluding at the same time that performance, despite its popularisation by the media, despite art school curricula and dissertations, remains an open ended and unpredictable medium for artistic experimentation.</p>...
Els límits de la «performance» des de perspectives teatrals. Conversa amb Albert Vidal
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1988, Núm. 29
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<p>The performance is a new attitude of interpretation andadventure which asks from the audience a different reading, a very different reading from the one asked by a conventional performance or avant-garde. A reading which comes from the tragic bottom of the inner attitude of human beings where the interest of emotions and feelings are above individual protagonism. A perception which requires, on the art of the performer and the audience, sorne distance. That is Albert Vidal's strictly personal point of view, a Catalan creator who, in a corversation about the limits of the performance from a theatrical viewpoint, explains his conception of the performance as the key to contemporary reading, the commitment of the artist of the future and the role of the audience in it. Albert Vidal's background is full of complete personal creations which come from the mime and progressively break with the conventional theatrical relationship in arder to bring theatrical languages to the limits of their imaginary conventions, those involving them in an integral play with perception. L'aperitiu, Cos, Pare Antropològic, Home Urbà, El venedor de gelats and the recent Exposició viva de 40 personatges, where he does not act, are his most famous productions, sorne of which have been widely diffused in several countries.</p>...
La «performance»: de les accions inicials als multimèdia dels vuitanta
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1988, Núm. 29
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<p>This text deals with a wide view, from the first gestures made by such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni or Yves Klein till the performance of the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties, entirely multimedia. Through that period, the incidence of FLUXUS and the happenings was very important for the consolidation of the performance of the end of that decade.</p>
<p>Conceptual art and one of its branches, body art, allowed the artist to think of himself as his own work of art. His body became another element of his artistic practice. Such names as Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer and Klaus Rinke, among others, are exemples of it. Groups similar to the Viennese actionims appeared simultaneously. They, together with such artists as Gina Pane, Chris Burden, etc., devoted themselves to the search for physical limits.</p>
<p>The trip to introspection of Marina Abramovic and Ulay and the transformism of Urs Liithi, Manon, etc., were other possible trends together with the diverse use of such means as video, music, dance, theatre, etc. From that conjoction of interests was born the multimedia performance of the eighties, considered to be a possible «total work of art».</p>...
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Este texto recoge una amplia panorámica que se extiende desde los primeros gestos realizados por artistas como Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni o Yves Klein hasta la performance de finales de los setenta y principios de los ochenta, ya totalmente multimedia. A lo largo de este recorrido, la incidencia del grupo FLUXUS y los </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">happenings</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> de los años sesenta desempeñaron un papel muy importante en la consolidación de la performance de finales de esta misma década.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El arte conceptual y una de sus ramificaciones, el </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">body art</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> o arte corporal, permitieron que el artista se considerase a sí mismo como su propia obra de arte. Su cuerpo se convertía en un elemento más de su práctica artística. Así surgieron nombres como Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer y Klaus Rinke, entre otros. Paralelamente se definieron ciertos grupos afines, como el del accionismo vienés que, junto con otros artistas como Gina Pane, Chris Burden, etc. se dedicaron a la búsqueda de los límites físicos.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El viaje a la introspección de Marina Abramovic i Ulay o el transformismo de Urs Lüthi, Manon, etc. fueron otras posibles vías junto con la diversidad en el uso de medios como el vídeo, la música, la danza, el teatro, etc. De esta conjunción de intereses nace la performance multimedia de los ochenta, considerada como una posible «obra de arte total».</span></p>...
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aquest text recull una àmplia panoràmica que s’expandeix des dels primers gestos realitzats per artistes com Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni o Yves Klein fins la performance de finals dels setanta i principis dels vuitanta, ja totalment multimèdia. Al llarg d’aquest recorregut, la incidència del grup FLUXUS i els </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">happenings</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> dels anys setanta varen jugar un paper molt important en la consolidació de la performance de finals d’aquesta mateixa dècada.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">L’art conceptual y una de les seves ramificacions, el </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">body art</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> o art corporal, varen permetre que l’artista es considerés a si mateix com la seva pròpia obra d’art. El seu cos es convertia en un element més de la seva pràctica artística. D’aquesta manera, varen sorgir noms com Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer i, Klaus Rinke, entre altres. Paral·lelament, es varen definir certs grups anàlegs, com el de l’accionisme vienès que, juntament amb altres artistes com ara Gina Pane, Chris Burden, etc. varen dedicar-se a la recerca dels límits físics.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El viatge a la introspecció de Marina Abramovic i Ulay o el transformisme d’Urs Lüthi, en Manon, etc. varen ser altres possibles vies, juntament amb la diversitat en l’ús de mitjans com el vídeo, la música, la dansa, el teatre, etc. D’aquesta conjunció d’interessos neix la performance multimèdia dels vuitanta, considerada com una possible «obra d’art total».</span></p>...
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Este texto recoge una amplia panorámica que se extiende desde los primeros gestos realizados por artistas como Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni o Yves Klein hasta la performance de finales de los setenta y principios de los ochenta, ya totalmente multimedia. A lo largo de este recorrido, la incidencia del grupo FLUXUS y los </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">happenings</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> de los años sesenta desempeñaron un papel muy importante en la consolidación de la performance de finales de esta misma década.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El arte conceptual y una de sus ramificaciones, el </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">body art</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> o arte corporal, permitieron que el artista se considerase a sí mismo como su propia obra de arte. Su cuerpo se convertía en un elemento más de su práctica artística. Así surgieron nombres como Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer y Klaus Rinke, entre otros. Paralelamente se definieron ciertos grupos afines, como el del accionismo vienés que, junto con otros artistas como Gina Pane, Chris Burden, etc. se dedicaron a la búsqueda de los límites físicos.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El viaje a la introspección de Marina Abramovic i Ulay o el transformismo de Urs Lüthi, Manon, etc. fueron otras posibles vías junto con la diversidad en el uso de medios como el vídeo, la música, la danza, el teatro, etc. De esta conjunción de intereses nace la performance multimedia de los ochenta, considerada como una posible «obra de arte total».</span></p>...
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aquest text recull una àmplia panoràmica que s’expandeix des dels primers gestos realitzats per artistes com Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni o Yves Klein fins la performance de finals dels setanta i principis dels vuitanta, ja totalment multimèdia. Al llarg d’aquest recorregut, la incidència del grup FLUXUS i els </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">happenings</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> dels anys setanta varen jugar un paper molt important en la consolidació de la performance de finals d’aquesta mateixa dècada.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">L’art conceptual y una de les seves ramificacions, el </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">body art</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> o art corporal, varen permetre que l’artista es considerés a si mateix com la seva pròpia obra d’art. El seu cos es convertia en un element més de la seva pràctica artística. D’aquesta manera, varen sorgir noms com Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer i, Klaus Rinke, entre altres. Paral·lelament, es varen definir certs grups anàlegs, com el de l’accionisme vienès que, juntament amb altres artistes com ara Gina Pane, Chris Burden, etc. varen dedicar-se a la recerca dels límits físics.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El viatge a la introspecció de Marina Abramovic i Ulay o el transformisme d’Urs Lüthi, en Manon, etc. varen ser altres possibles vies, juntament amb la diversitat en l’ús de mitjans com el vídeo, la música, la dansa, el teatre, etc. D’aquesta conjunció d’interessos neix la performance multimèdia dels vuitanta, considerada com una possible «obra d’art total».</span></p>...
Pompeu Fabra, traductor teatral
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1986, Núm. 28
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Addenda
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1986, Núm. 28
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<p>I cannot talk about history out of modesty. Either an admissible experience or a foolishness La Pipironda has got from 1959 till 1966 a stable staff. I have not been the only producer: Florenci Clavé has also produced ...
Els pipirondos. Tot allò que recordo del grup teatral La Pipironda.
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1986, Núm. 28
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<p>The “pipirondos” group has been quite great in number. We used to perform at the bars of some districts. Nobody has ever got away from playing a part; I have played the part of El Candel in La batalla del Verdún by Jose M. Rodríguez Méndez. La Pipironda, under the direction of Àngel Carmona, never dies. Its beginning goes back to 1957 with the creation of the Teatro Popular de Sala y Alcoba, by Àngel Carmona and Florenci Clave, and the meetings which some friends used to held at various bars in Barcelona once a week. A printed sheet called «La Pipironda» began also to be published. In its first phase the group’s repertory consisted of La estratosfera by Pedro Salinas, Navidad by Gregorio Martínez Sierra, El mestre de minyons by Feliu i Codina and the Auto de la donosa tabernera by Jose M. Rodríguez Méndez; this last play has been performed more thana thousand times. From 1959 till 1967 the group is in its fullest swing. In 1961 they go on tour to Vitoria, Baracaldo, Mieres, Oviedo, etc. Àngel Carmona is still alone and in1980 he takes up again the theatre with a King Lear at the Cafe Central in Girona street. Afterwards there have followed Lysistrata and Amor de Don Perlimplin con Belisaen su jardín. If I had money I would become a Maecenas and would say to Àngel Carmona: take up the theatre, only the theatre, as you like, don’t do anything else.</p>...
Xavier Fàbregas, dades bibliogràfiques
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 1989, Núm. 30
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