El realismo teatral en la España de postguerraAntonio Buero Vallejo y Alfonso Sastre

Résumé

This thesis expounds the evolution of realism in the Spanish theatre during the postwar period considering the different theatrical trends developed at that very moment and concentrating on Antonio Buero Vallejo's and Alfonso Sastre's contribution to the Spanish theatre. We will realise that after having been settled into a realistic dramaturgy, their creativity is aimed at really constructive and divergent dramatic fields. The influence received by the European playwrights Piscator, Strindberg and, above all, Bertolt Brecht will converge on the conformation of a path that, in Buero will show a reality based on overcoming the myth, a philosophical concept supported on individual-society nature and commitment. In the case of Sartre, we will behold the expression of a more radical commitment, progressing from pure tragedy towards devastating comedy, not forgetting a more complex and alienating concept of tragedy far the individual.