The Staging in Buenos Aires of an Excerpt from O Mariscal by Cabanillas and Vilar Ponte in a Festival in Support of Franco's Rebels

Abstract

This paper describes the use by the so-called Crusaders of Santiago of O Mariscal —the dramatic text by the Galician nationalists Ramón Cabanillas and Antón Vilar Ponte— in an act of exaltation of Franco’s coup plotters that took place in Buenos Aires in 1937 in order to give economic support to the Junta de Burgos. In addition to putting into context this type of festival in which Galician theatre had a place, the protagonists —both the promoting collective and the playwrights and performers who took part in these events— are identified. This work also studies the process of nullifying the Galician vindication present in the dramatic titles used by the Galician Francoists in the Argentinean capital. Finally, the precautions taken by Galician writers to avoid this type of spurious use of their literary creation —as well as their impossibility of achieving this during the Spanish Civil War— are noted.