El teatro en la ciudad de Murcia durante la guerra civil

Abstract

This work tries to study with thoroughness the aesthetic tendencies of the theater written or represented during the war, neither the attitude of the authors or the intentionality of works, task or made by other investigators who mention themselves in the bibliography. Its purpose is to gather in form of cards and tables all the theater manifestations that took place in this period. It offers interesting information about companies, actors, directors, works... that passed by the city of Murcia. It allows a comparison with the billboards of the great theater nuclei, Madrid and Barcelona, and contributes more data to the history of the theater representations in republican Spain during the Spanish civil war. Of the same form, it completes the history of the theater billboard of the city of Murcia initiated by other investigators. The information has like main source newspapers of the time, but these present/display lagoons and raise too many mistakes in titles, in the names of the authors, the schedules of the representations... For that reason, it is completed with other bibliographical sources and the main difficulties or doubts at the time of gathering the data are explained of the billboards, that can offer variations in different newspapers. When comparing the results with the presented ones in other works of the several that have in the last been developed years around this line of investigation, are perceived clearly that many of the circumstances which they took place in the theater scope were similar to those of other zones of nonnational Spain: the theaters continued open during all the fight being, along with the cinema, the main means of entertainment of the town. The billboards are a mere continuation of which it was imagining before the beginning of the war, although small changes took place, like some attempts to create an urgency theater or the scorn towards before very aplaudios authors in the scenes and now rejected because having declared affection to the opposite side.