Spanish Golden Age Theatre’s legacy at the beginning of the CNTC
Mariano de Paco Serrano, Adolfo Marsillach: Escenificar a los clásicos (1986-1994)
Abstract
Adolfo Marsillach: Escenificar a los clásicos (1986-1994) by Mariano de Paco Serrano, stage director and theatre scholar, was published after his PhD research and experience. The book describes the first years of the Spanish Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (CNTC) through the work of its founder, Adolfo Marsillach, who promoted a new way of treating and representing Spanish Golden Age theatre on stage in the last decades of the 20th century. After a few pages portraying the figure of Marsillach and the newly born theatrical institution of the CNTC, Paco Serrano’s study goes on with the performance analysis of ten CNTC productions that were staged between 1986 and 1994 –El médico de su honra (1986), Los locos de Valencia (1986), Antes que todo es mi dama (1987), La Celestina (1988), El burlador de Sevilla (1988), El vergonzoso en palacio (1988), La gran Sultana (1992), Fuente Ovejuna (1993), Don Gil de las calzas verdes (1994) and El médico de su honra (1994)– providing the reader with enough material to appreciate the stature of the theatrical revolution that Marsillach represented for Spanish Golden Age theatre’s performance and reception nowadays.
