A New Play

A New Play
Directed byJuan de Orduña
Written byJuan de Orduña
Based onA New Play by Manuel Tamayo y Baus
StarringIrasema Dilián
Roberto Font
Jesús Tordesillas
CinematographyWilly Goldberger
Edited byMariano Pombo
Music byJuan Quintero
Production
companies
Juan de Orduña, P.C.
Distributed byCEA Distribución
Release date
  • 25 November 1946 (1946-11-25)
Running time
92 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

A New Play (Spanish: Un drama nuevo) is a 1946 historical drama film directed by Juan de Orduña and starring Irasema Dilián, Roberto Font and Jesús Tordesillas.[1] It was shot at the CEA Studios in Madrid. The film's sets were designed by the art director Sigfrido Burmann.[2] It is based on the 1867 play of the same title by Manuel Tamayo y Baus.

Synopsis

In Jacobean London, William Shakespeare's company stage a new tragedy. Shakespeare allows the fool Yorick to play the lead, before realising that the new play's theme of jealousy of a spouse closely resembles that of Yorick and his wife Alicia.

Cast

References

  1. ^ De España p.188
  2. ^ Pujante & Hoenselaars p.47

Bibliography

  • De España, Rafael. Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films. Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Pujante, Angel-Luis & Hoenselaars, A. J. Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe. University of Delaware Press, 2003.
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