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Numancia (Rafael Alberti)

Details

Director: Rafael Alberti
Dates: December 1937
Venue: Teatro de la Zarzuela
Location: Madrid, Spain

Critical response

D. Gagen's 2008 article is a study of the political and historical circumstances that affected Alberti’s 1937 and 1943 productions of the play, their staging and their effect on contemporary media and audiences. The author discusses the nature of Alberti’s revisions and the significance of the play for him, his wife, María Teresa León, and Margarita Xirgu.

D. Gagen, 2008. ‘Rafael Alberti’s Updating of Cervantes’ La destrucción de Numancia’, MLR, 103, 93-112

Further information

The director, Alberti, brought another adaptation to Montevideo for a run in 1943, with the company of Margarita Xirgu, this time parodying a scene from Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (Cervantes 1984: 31)

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. 1984. El cerco de Numancia, ed. Robert Marrast. Madrid, Cátedra (in Spanish)

Numancia ( Sánchez Castañer)

Details: Director: Sánchez Castañer
Dates: 1948
Venue: Ancient Roman Theatre of Sagunto
Location: Sagunto, Spain

Numancia (José Tamayo)

Details: Director: José Tamayo
Dates: 17 June 1961
Venue: Anfiteatro and the Teatro Romano de Mérida
Location: Badajoz,

Numancia (Miguel Narros)

Details: Director: Miguel Narros
Production company: Compañía del Teatro Español
Dates: 3 October 1966
Venue: Teatro Español
Location: Madrid, Spain

Productions in Spanish

El cerco de Numancia (Manuel Canseco)

Details: Director: Manuel Canseco
Production company: Compañía Manuel Canseco
Dates: 15 July 1998
Venue: Teatro Romano de Mérida
Location: Badajoz,