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Theatre

Obra inédita e esquecida

By Leandro Carré Alvarellos

About this book

Leandro Carré Alvarellos is one of the most widely forgotten Galician nationalists. He was a polygraphist, an activist and creator of a Galician identity, a prolific author, most of his work unpublished so far. The publisher Alvarellos gathers in this new publication entitled Obra inédita e esquecida the best of his work: a selection of compositions, tales, theatre plays and legends written between 1919 and 1972. We have, for example, for the first time, the whole text of his theatre performance handbook of 1922 and several of his renowned Galician traditional tales in their first Galician version, never published in Galicia before. All this valuable material, along with other texts, is completed with interesting graphic materials: an unpublished photobiography, manuscripts, illustrations by the author for his publishing house... This material proves the undeniable contribution and the deep cultural and social influence of Leandro Carré Alvarellos in Galicia during the first third of the 20th century. This careful edition of almost 300 pages also includes a preface and notes by professor Xosé Manuel Maceira Fernández, whose dissertation precisely focused on Carré Alvarellos.

Book fragment

Advice on drama

Introductory words

In Galicia there were and still are many societies that had large numbers of theatre lovers. There are also groups who perform theatre. But most of the time the former and the latter just copy what Spanish actors do, and the productions of plays always belong to that tradition too, and therefore, they are mere imitators copying more or less well what they saw others doing. But they cannot have their own artistic personality nor show their conditions as actors creating some kind of character that may be praised or remembered.

However, Galician regional theatre does have a large number of plays (around 200) and there are some really remarkable ones amongst them. The day Galician theatre lovers decide to study such plays with love and perform them in all their might, then they can be entitled to a round of applause and create an artistic name that makes them be highlighted and remembered with affection.