Performing the Transition to Democracy

This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy.

David Rodríguez-Solás is Associate Professor of Spanish literary and theater studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

1. Resignifying the Past and the Performance Tradition 2. Laying the Groundwork for the Theater of the Future 3. European Tours of Independent Theater in the 1970s 4. The Fight for Democracy Takes to the Streets