Productions in Spanish

La malquerida

Details: Production company: Theatre Company of María Guerrero and Fernando Díaz de Mendoza
Dates: 12 December 1913
Venue: Teatro de la Princesa
Location: Madrid, Spain
Critical response: The premiere of the play was extremely successful.

La malquerida (Enrique Diosdado)

Details

Director: Enrique Diosdado
Dates: July 1977
Venue: Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain

Critical response

Despite considering La malquerida as Benavente’s best work, Enrique Llovet, writing in El País, disliked this production. He thought it was too old-fashioned, with little to interest contemporary audiences (1977).

Llovet, Enrique. 1977. ‘La malquerida: Benavente y su época’, El País, 17 July, http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/BENAVENTE/_JACINTO/malquerida/Benavente/epoca/elpepicul/19770717elpepicul_6/Tes [accessed November 2011] (Online Publication) (in Spanish)

La malquerida (Miguel Narros)

Details: Director: Miguel Narros
Dates: February 1988
Venue: El Teatro Español
Location: Madrid, Spain
Further information: This production attracted considerable press interest because of the director’s decision to cast much younger actors in the roles of Raimunda, Esteban and Rubio.

La malquerida (Claudio Casero)

Details: Director: Claudio Casero
Production company: Komo Teatro
Dates: 2009
Venue: Teatro Liceo
Location: Salamanca, Spain

Productions in English

The Passion Flower

Details

Based on translation: The Passion Flower (1933) by John Garrett Underhill
Dates: 1920
Location: New York, United States

Critical response

This production was hugely popular, to the extent that it toured the United States and Canada with 750 performances. In his article about the play’s impact during Benavente’s lifetime, Enrique Llovet described the title that Garrett chose for the play – The Passion Flower – as ‘ridiculous’ (1977).