La cena de los generales

by Alonso de Santos, José Luis; Amoros Guardiola, Andres

• ISBN13: 9788497402842
• ISBN10: 8497402847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Castalia Ediciones

Summary

April 1939, a few days after the end of the war, Franco wants to offer his generals a dinner at the Palace Hotel of Madrid, But the luxurious hotel is far from its better days: bombarded, like the rest of Madrid, it finds that the right-wing waiters have nothing to serve, and the cooks (on the left) are in jail. For dinner to go ahead lieutenant Medina will follow the suggestion from the hotel maitre’d Genaro: free the cooks for a day. Alonso de Santos uses the setting of the kitchen to function as the expression of the two Spains presenting a reality that is both tragic and raw. This tragicomedy explores themes of basic human values: good work, dignity, reconciliation, and many others.
 

Author Biography

José Luis Alonso de Santos has filled the better part of the history of theatre in the last quarter of the century. His time with Teatro Estudio de Madrid (TEM) introduced Spain to new techniques of interpretation, that awakened a vocation to which he has given himself professionally. He has been adapting popular plays since 1975. One of his acheivements: offering a vision of a slightly better society through comedy and intelligent humor, without playing down and running away from judgemental and dogmatic language that is determined to show a monolithic perspective of reality.