Judges at night

Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000) is the most important Spanish playwright of the post-war generation. He is the author of almost three dozen pessimistic plays ("The Dream of Reason", "The Story of a Staircase", "Today is a Holiday", "In the Burning Darkness", "Words on the Sand", "The Weaver of Dreams") with elements of sharp social and political criticism. He was awarded a number of literary and theatrical prizes, including the Lope de Vega Prize (1949) and the Cervantes Prize (1986). Buero Vallejo's later dramas are marked by the influence of Bertolt Brecht, whose works he translated.