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In the
author’s own
words his
play "aims
to set down
within a
realistic
framework,
so necessary
to the
theatre, a
nucleus of
problems and
passions
involving
man in
general, and
not blind
people in
particular…"
The physical
blindness of
the depicted
characters
is only a
motive or
pretext for
presenting
the
limitations
we all share
as human
beings.
Accordingly,
the play
must be
understood
as a sketch
of the
tragedy of
man and his
destiny, a
problem
which again
is acquiring
legitimacy
and urgency,
stepping out
from the
serious
Spanish
theatre
studies into
the
surrounding
reality. Two
aspects are
set down as
intentionally
dominant
within the
plan of
Buero
Vallejo’s
work. One is
the social
relationship,
a mixture of
free and
forced
situations,
which are
established
between a
strong
individuality
whose
reasoning
and
frustration
conflict
with the
reasoning
and passion
of the
community.
The other
involves the
tension of
the
visionary,
the yearning
for "light"
and the
belief in it
which
occasionally
distinguishes
the people
of genuine
religious
feelings
facing the
material
interests of
the
majority. |
