
STIFTELSEN
Dramaten
Premiere: December 10, 1977
Performances: 68
Playwright: Antonio Buero Vallejo
Original Spanish Title: La Fundación (The Foundation)
Director: Alf Sjöberg
Character: Tomas
SYNOPSIS: One of Buero Vallejo’s most popular plays, it has been
translated into a number of languages and performed in countries such as
Germany, Sweden and the United States. The play is set in ‘an unknown
country’, which no doubt contributes to its international popularity as
a work with something to say about the human condition in general. Buero
himself was condemned to death for his participation in the Republican
side during the Spanish Civil War. The death sentence was commuted, but
he spent nearly seven years in prison. Therefore, although the play is
not autobiographical, it does contain elements of Buero’s prison
experience, such as the overcrowding in cells and conversations about
art and about informers and torture.
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