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Federico García Lorca's plays

The top 3 according to 35 votes from people: Blood Wedding · Yerma · Doña Rosita the Spinster. (Updated Apr 13, 2018.)

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

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Top 14

  1. 1

    Blood Wedding

    1933. A bride runs away on her wedding day.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  2. 2

    Yerma

    1934. A woman who cannot have children.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  3. 3

    Doña Rosita the Spinster

    1935. A lifetime of waiting in Granada.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  4. 4

    The House of Bernarda Alba

    1936. A mother locks up her daughters after their father's death. Finished weeks before he was killed.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  5. 5

    The Public

    Written c. 1930. Surrealist theatre he called "unperformable".

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  6. 6

    Buster Keaton's Stroll

    1925. A short surrealist piece.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 1

    2
  7. 7

    Once Five Years Pass

    1931. A dreamlike, avant-garde "legend of time".

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  8. 8

    Mariana Pineda

    1927. The Granada liberal heroine; his first success.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  9. 9

    The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden

    1933. An old man marries a young woman.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  10. 10

    The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal

    Another farce for puppets.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  11. 11

    The Butterfly's Evil Spell

    1920. His first staged play, a flop.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  12. 12

    The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife

    1930. A farce about a mismatched marriage.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  13. 13

    The Tragicomedy of Don Cristóbal and Miss Rosita

    An Andalusian puppet farce.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  14. 14

    Play Without a Title

    1936. Unfinished; theatre within theatre.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0

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