El tema de los escondidos de la posguerra española en la producción teatral de Antonio Gala y Juan José Alonso Millán

Abstract

The theatre which expresses reality and human miseries deals with the issue of «people who have had to go into hiding», to mark the occasion of Spanish Civil War of 1936, with two plays written by two very different authors: Antonio Gala's Noviembre y un poco de yerba, whose main character, Diego, when the play begins, has been living in clandestinity for twenty-seven years, and Juan José Alonso Millán's Se vuelve a llevar la guerra larga, whose main character, Benito, has also spent thirty-five years by the same way. But in inspite of belonging to opposing sides, both of them are victims of the war in the same measure, since after escaping from fighting at the front, they become prisoners of the two women who give them shelter. Both plays share a common character: fear.