# Federico García Lorca's plays

All of Lorca's theatre, from the puppet farces to the rural trilogy, ordered by what is most staged and studied today.

- 35 votes · 14 items
- Apr 13, 2018 · don_tintayp
- https://even.best/en/l/2400/federico-garcia-lorca-s-plays

## Top 14

1. **Blood Wedding** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1933. A bride runs away on her wedding day.
2. **Yerma** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1934. A woman who cannot have children.
3. **Doña Rosita the Spinster** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1935. A lifetime of waiting in Granada.
4. **The House of Bernarda Alba** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1936. A mother locks up her daughters after their father's death. Finished weeks before he was killed.
5. **The Public** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Written c. 1930. Surrealist theatre he called "unperformable".
6. **Buster Keaton's Stroll** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1925. A short surrealist piece.
7. **Once Five Years Pass** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1931. A dreamlike, avant-garde "legend of time".
8. **Mariana Pineda** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1927. The Granada liberal heroine; his first success.
9. **The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1933. An old man marries a young woman.
10. **The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Another farce for puppets.
11. **The Butterfly's Evil Spell** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1920. His first staged play, a flop.
12. **The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1930. A farce about a mismatched marriage.
13. **The Tragicomedy of Don Cristóbal and Miss Rosita** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — An Andalusian puppet farce.
14. **Play Without a Title** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1936. Unfinished; theatre within theatre.

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