Abstract

A study of the activity and dramatic production in Majorca from the immediate post-war to the present. Starting from the regional theatre, with its exclusively commercial vocation, the author goes on to analyze the attempts of providing theatrical plays with solid cultural bases, by the dignification of the dramatic text and the synchronization with European theatrical trends, as well as by employing the most experimental formulae.

Abstract

The author sets out the dramatic production of Joan Oliver and Salvador Espriu, two different ways of understanding the concept of theatrical literary creation and of interpreting projection requirements. Oliver, in general, presents the angle of the bourgeois comedy; the critical tone of the drama he produced before the Civil War either disappears or is considerably tempered. Espriu applies himself to a theatre with tragic roots, embellished with the combination of diverse elements, without taking the possibilities of immediate premiere performances into consideration.