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Lluïsa Cunillé Salgado

Personal information
Surname: Cunillé Salgado
First name: Lluïsa
Commonly known as: Lluïsa Cunillé
Born: 1961, Badalona, Spain
Biography

Lluïsa Cunillé (Badalona, 1961) is one of Spain’s most prolific contemporary dramatists and the winner of Spain's National Prize for Dramatic Literature Prize in 2010. Born near Barcelo... (Read more...)

Themes

Cunillé’s theatre is populated by characters who are unable to communicate with others or to realise effectively their own dreams and desires. Time in her plays passes, but there is a s... (Read more...)

Style

Much of Cunillé’s theatre is characterised by minimalism. José Sanchis Sinisterra defines her work as a ‘poetic of subtraction’ (Sinisterra 1999). This is because it is frequently lack... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Useful reading and websites
  • Feldman, Sharon G. 2007. ‘The Sala Beckett and the Zero Degree of Theatricality: From Lluïsa Cunillé to Charles Batlle’, Contemporary Theatre Review, 17.3, 370-84

Entry written by Gwynneth Dowling. Last updated on 27 October 2011.

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