by Miguel Mihura · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423919239
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«Maribel y la extraña familia» is the stage comedy by Miguel Mihura, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Marcelino, a young man from the countryside, arrives in Madrid with his mother in search of a wife. In a nightclub bar he meets Maribel and invites her to his home; she accepts, thinking it is a job, but Marcelino introduces her to his mother and aunt. Comic misunderstandings ensue, portraying social hypocrisy, prejudice, and the search for love.
Comedy in three acts, premiered in 1959. Edition with an introduction by Emilio de Miguel Martínez, in the Austral Collection (no. A 123).
Recommended for students of Spanish literature and for those who enjoy contemporary classic theatre and the humour of Miguel Mihura.
Miguel Mihura Santos was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa (1952), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre. He was also active as a comics artist.
