COMEDIES

1. LORD ARTHUR'S CRIME
(EL CRIMEN DE LORD ARTURO)
A sly fortune teller convinces Lord Arthur that his unavoidable fate is to commit a crime. Based on Oscar Wilde's short story.

2. NO SUICIDE IN SPRINGTIME
(PROHIBIDO SUICIDARSE EN PRIMAVERA)
At the Assisted Suicide Clinic and Resort, four patients and four trespassers resolve their conflicts.

3. ROMANCE IN THREE NIGHTS
(ROMANCE EN TRES NOCHES)
In the middle of the night a drug-smuggling woman skier finds love and trouble in a lone mountain cabin.

4. TREES DIE STANDING TALL
(LOS ARBOLES MUEREN DE PIE)
An involved make-believe scheme keeps the painful truth hidden from grandmother for years, but the time comes for grandma to hide that she knows.

5. THE THIRD WORD
(LA TERCERA PALABRA)
While teaching an illiterate man in a remote town, a graduate woman learns some facts of life.

6. THREE DIAMONDS AND A WOMAN
(TRES DIAMANTES Y UNA MUJER)
A sophisticated gang of thieves plans to steal the royal crown but their leader is forced to take refuge in the Police Commissar's attic.


HISTORIC PORTRAITS

7. UNFINISHED SYMPHONY
(SINFONIA INACABADA)
Franz Schubert prepares for his first public concert during the Congress of Vienna, celebrates with friends and goes to Hungary to teach his beloved Countess Caroline Esterhazy.

8. THE ARCOS MILLERS
(LA MOLINERA DE ARCOS)
The King's Deputy in the Andalusian town decides to seduce the miller's wife and the miller decides to get even seducing the King Deputy's wife. Based on Alarcon's The Three-Cornered Hat version of a true story of the Goya era.

9. CROWN OF LOVE AND DEATH
(CORONA DE AMOR Y MUERTE)
In mid-fourteenth century, Peter I crowns his lifelong lover Inez De Castro Queen of Portugal after she is assassinated for reasons of state.

10. THE KNIGHT WITH GOLD SPURS
(EL CABALLERO DE LAS ESPUELAS DE ORO)
Don Francisco De Quevedo, Knight of the Order of Santiago, politician, satirist and poet, is portrayed at two different periods of his life twenty years apart, in the Baroque Madrid of Kings Phillip III and IV and in a country estate.


FABLES

11. AGAIN THE DEVIL
(OTRA VEZ EL DIABLO)
The Devil wants to prove wrong "those charlatans" who say he can do no good, by doing a devilishly good deed on earth.

12. THE LADY OF THE DAWN
(LA DAMA DEL ALBA)
Visiting a village, Death gets carried away by children's vitality and misses her appointment. In her next visit, new developments in the village keep Death puzzled about whom she must reap this time.

13. THE BOAT WITH NO FISHERMAN
(LA BARCA SIN PESCADOR)
Negotiating with the devil to regain fortune and power, a stock market tycoon consents to a death wish, and years later tries to make amends with the dead man's family.


DRAMAS

14. THE STRANDED SIREN
(LA SIRENA VARADA)
Trying to escape a boring life, a young man gets involved with the sordid lives of others.

15. OUR NATASHA
(NUESTRA NATACHA)
On the eve of the Spanish Civil War the country's first woman PhD, after unsuccessfully trying to update a backward reformatory, leads several fellow graduates in a challenging pilot project.

16. THREE PERFECT WIVES
(LAS TRES PERFECTAS CASADAS)
Just before his planned suicide, a bachelor's seduction of his three best friends' wives gets him killed by the only woman he loved. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's theme for Der Tod des Junggesellen (Death of A Bachelor).

17. THE KEY IN THE ATTIC
(LA LLAVE EN EL DESVAN)
Early childhood trauma breeds obsession and criminal behavior in a man betrayed by wife and friend.

18. SEVEN SCREAMS ACROSS THE SEA
(SIETE GRITOS EN EL MAR)
At the onset of World War II, a passenger cruiser is chosen as decoy target to save a military convoy from an enemy submarine.

19. THE SEVEN BALCONY HOUSE
(LA CASA DE LOS SIETE BALCONES)
A deranged woman, an autistic boy, an abusive man and a designing maid love and hate, laugh and cry in a manorial house with a treasure and yet on the verge of ruin.

20. LETTER FROM A STRANGER
(CARTA DE UNA DESCONOCIDA)
The day after their son dies, a woman empties her heart in a letter to the man she loved passionately all her life but never knew her identity. Based on Stefan Zweig's short story.


SAMPLE FEATURED MUSIC

(From "Crown Of Love And Death")



ENGLISH VERSION BY

Lia Valdes Beeson, Doctora en Filosofía y Letras, Santo Tomás de Villanueva University, Marianao, La Habana, Cuba, and Technical Translator in the USA.
lbson@mind.net



WITH PERMISSION FROM
The Heirs of Alejandro Casona.