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'Lorca at his most Chekhovian' Daily Telegraph 'Dona Rosita is the most accessible and personal of all his plays - a wistful tragic-comedy of unfulfilled love' Guardian '[In] this delicately moving play, about fading beauty and passing time... realism mixes effortlessly with symbolism. Dona Rosita is a touchingly accurate picture of a woman sustained by an illusion. But she also becomes an emblem of Spanish womanhood victimised by men' Guardian 'A desolate comedy of thwarted love, which ... shows Lorca's world in a fresh light' Evening Standard 'Lyrical and atmospheric...Around this sad, simple story, Lorca weaves a lament for mutability and waste' Sunday Telegraph

'Lorca at his most Chekhovian' Daily Telegraph 'Dona Rosita is the most accessible and personal of all his plays - a wistful tragic-comedy of unfulfilled love' Guardian '[In] this delicately moving play, about fading beauty and passing time realism mixes effortlessly with symbolism. Dona Rosita is a touchingly accurate picture of a woman sustained by an illusion. But she also becomes an emblem of Spanish womanhood victimised by men' Guardian 'A desolate comedy of thwarted love, which shows Lorca's world in a fresh light' Evening Standard 'Lyrical and atmospheric Around this sad, simple story, Lorca weaves a lament for mutability and waste' Sunday Telegraph

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Federico García Lorca was born in 1898, in Andalusia, Spain. A poet and dramatist, and also a gifted painter and pianist, his early popular ballads earned him the title of 'poet of the gypsies'. In 1930 he turned his attention to theatre, visiting remote villages and playing classic and new works for peasant audiences. In 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans.

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