Las cartas boca abajo: Buero Vallejo at Teatro Español

Teatro Español presents Las cartas boca abajo, Antonio Buero Vallejo's piercing drama about domestic tensions and unspoken truths. The production exposes how unfulfilled desires and silent bitterness turn a household into an inescapable cage. 🎭🤫

Organised by Madrid's Teatro Español, this revival brings back one of the cornerstone plays of post-war Spanish theater, penned by celebrated playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo.

🎭 Las cartas boca abajo

📅 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 January and 4, 5, 6, 7 February 2027

🕐 18:30

📍 Teatro Español, Madrid

🎟️ 10 €

📖 A portrait of silence and hidden ambition

The story constructs a fractured family portrait around two sisters confined in an unwanted home, paralyzed in a stalled present and condemned to live amid closely guarded secrets. The text questions how deeply people become prisoners of repressed yearnings and what happens when those truths are finally exposed.

First premiered in 1957, the play reflects the disillusionment, ambition, and quiet desperation experienced in Spain just before the economic changes of the late Francoist era. In a society where the stakes of everyday survival ran high, individuals invariably kept an ace hidden face down.

🎭 Buero Vallejo at Teatro Español

With this work, Antonio Buero Vallejo captured the psychological fault lines of a generation, echoing conflicts that still resonate within modern families. Staged at the historic Teatro Español, this piece invites audiences to examine the fragile line between truth and self-delusion.

✨ A gripping exploration of family secrets and the quiet price of unfulfilled dreams.