Abstract
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND MoST DISCUSSED WOR of the 1960-61 theabical season in Madrid was Las Meninas written by Antonio Buero Vallejo and directed by Jose Tamayo. It was first presented on the occasion of Velazquez' anniversary. This work, which is based on a famous Vel3.zquez painting, has enjoyed great success and has aroused many contradictory comments. Among these comments, which come from different sources, there is general agreement that this production, like all those of this author, is worthy. of serious consideration. We shall now attempt to do it justice not only because we have high regard for the author but also because he is the most serious and the most sophisticated of our contemporary dramatists. The comments, as we shall soon see, revolve around the possible application of a particular historical situation in the period of Philip IV to present-day Spain. Buero Vallejo achieves his goal by inventing a plot in which Velazquez himself adopts a polemical attitude which serves as a catalytic agent for the nonconformist state of mind: something like the historical conscience of his time.
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