Buscant les arrels

Abstract

<p>He would live in Barcelona and visit the districts occupied by marginal immigrants; then he would go over the districts of the autochthonous population. Madrid has not got such sharp contrats despite the great number of foreigners who live there (Negros, Chineses, etc.). Angel Carmona set up a small group of theatre called La Pipironda which at first was composed of non-Catalan people. Its first name was Teatro de Sala y Alcoba. Carmona would try to look for our roots and harmonize the fact of being native of Barcelona and Catalan with the Spanish traditionalism. We would refuse cosmopolitism as a compulsory model. I began to collaborate early with the&nbsp;<em>Auto de la donosa tabernera.&nbsp;</em>Politics would mixed up with the theatre and the police began to rush into the performances. I still wrote another play,&nbsp;<em>La batalla del Verdún,&nbsp;</em>on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of La Pipironda. On remembering those times, you are amazed to see that Carmona has vanished and the homage he deserves has never been rendered to him. The independent theatre has followed another way, that of the “internationalism”, which differs from the one we would support. Now we can see the results: the theatre is going through a bad period.</p>