Name Alberto Miralles Role Dramatist | Books A.M. | |
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Died March 3, 2004, Madrid, Spain | ||
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Alberto Miralles Grancha (September 23, 1940 – March 3, 2004) was a Spanish dramatist, the author of some 40 plays.
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- Biography
- Works
- Awards
- References
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Biography
He was born in Elche, but moved to Barcelona at a young age, where he majored in Romance Philology and graduated with a degree in drama and stage direction from the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona . He was also a technical chemical engineer at the School of Chemical Experts in Barcelona.
In 1967, he created the Cathar group, including actors such as Mercedes Sampietro and Jeannine Mestre. In 1975 he moved to Madrid, forcing the dissolution of the Cathar and the beginning of a new phase in its theatrical life.
In 1979, he began to teach in the TAI School of Madrid, working with playwrights such as Adolfo Marsillach on Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, which won the Premio Especial Ciclo del Teatro Latino, and Las arrecogías del beaterio de Santa María Egipciaca by José Martín Remember. His performing work alternated with the publication of articles and reviews theater in numerous newspapers and magazines.
He was friends with, and frequently quarreled with, Marsillach Adolfo and José Luis Alonso de Santos. He was critical of the submissive official theater sponsored by the Socialist government and general corruption.
He died in Madrid on March 2 of 2004, after a year-long struggle against lung cancer.
Works
Miralles was one of the essential names of independent theater for 60 years, and one of the founders of the Spanish Association of Playwrights, of which he later became president. His theater is always critical and demystifying and current on any proposed formal innovation: all procedures used freely dramatic serving a challenging critical work that breaks with conventions and values. In that sense, Miralles is a radical author.
He has also premiered numerous adaptations of classical texts and books for children. He taught at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona from 1966 to 1974 and Imaginary Arts Workshop in Madrid since 1979. He gave numerous workshops, lectures and conferences and wrote several books on teaching theater.
Miralles is the author of numerous scholarly articles on theater published in national newspapers and magazines of the trade. He published the novels Una semana pintada de negro, which won the Maritime University Prize, and Mi país es tu piel.
He wrote about 40 plays and 7 trials and directed about 30. For all these works received over 30 awards.