Аннотация:This critical overview begins with a discussion of recent stagings of Lorca and Valle‐Inclán and then focuses on the theatre of the post‐Civil War period: comedies frequently revived in the 1980s and 1990s; the tragedies of Sastre and Buero Vallejo, Spain's foremost living playwright; the social plays of the ‘Realistic Generation’ which began to be performed in the 1960s; and the avant‐garde pieces of ‘underground’ writers of the same period as well as of Paris‐based Arrabal and of Nieva, the most successful proponent of non‐representational theatre within Spain. The overview continues with the plays of Salom, Gala, and others such as Diosdado, Spain's woman author with the longest successful theatrical career, and concludes with the works of new playwrights who gained national recognition in democratic Spain: Alonso de Santos and Fermin Cabal, as well as several women playwrights who include Fedrero and Reina.
