Play Without a Title (Lorca)
- Play Without a Title (Lorca)
"Play Without a Title", or "Untitled Play" ("Comedia sin título"), is an unfinished experimental play by the Spanish twentieth-century modernist playwright Federico García Lorca. Lorca conceived the work as a three-act drama and had referred to it by the title "The Dream of Life" [Edwards (1994, xxxi).] (echoing, perhaps, Calderón's classic Golden-Age comedy "Life is a Dream"), but he completed only the first act. Lorca's play was probably written in 1935, but remained unpublished until 1978; it received its Spanish-language première in 1989 at the Teatro María Guerrero in Madrid, in a production directed by Lluís Pasqual.][Edwards (1994, xxxi-xxxii)] ]Gwynne Edwards, the English-language translator of the play, argues that it differs in important respects from many of Lorca's other works, insofar as it attempts a series of transgressions of the traditional boundary separating stage from auditorium. The play tackles "issues of class and ideological division, of intolerance and hatred, all of them acted out in a theatre where the actors are as much the audience as the audience the actors."[Edwards (1994, xxxv).] Lorca's experiments in this direction echo the work of Pirandello (whose "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1921) attempted to stage a similar transgression), though Lorca develops the effect in a far more politically-orientated, almost Brechtian direction.]Works cited
* Edwards, Gwynne. 1994. Introduction. In "Plays: Three" by Federico García Lorca. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413652408. p.xi-xxxv.
* García Lorca, Federico. 1994. "Play Without a Title". In "Plays: Three". Trans. Gwynne Edwards. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413652408. p.105-124.
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