Celebrated playwright Josep Maria Benet i Jornet offers a personally inflected overview of the last forty years of theater in Catalonia. A strong defender of textually based productions, Benet notes that the Catalan language, marginalized under Franco, does not exacdy corne booming center stage once the dictator disappears. Whether in its stricdy commercial or more experimental and independent forms (or in combinations thereof), theater in Catalonia appeared to have ¡¡tde ro om for Catalan authors, living or dead. By the mid-198os, however, the situation had changed, and the authors of theatrical works (Sergi Belbel, Lluïsa Cunillé, Carles Batlle, Jordi Galzeran, Jordi Sànchez, and others) were once again in demand in alternative, private, and public venues.
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