"Memorial Patterns in the Spanish State Theatre in Times of Democracy"

The article collects some of the most relevant results of the first phase of the project PRIN 2022 Identity Heritage and Cultural Memory. The elaboration of the past through the theatre of democratic Spain (1975 to present), funded by the European Union and the Italian Ministry of University and Research, coordinated by Veronica Orazi (PI). The results shed new light on the perception, conceptualisation, problematisation and/or dramatisation of the process of redefining identity through the recovery of collective memory. To this purpose, the sources –documentary, non-fiction, memoiristic and testimonial, (auto)biographical and (auto)fictional– on which contemporary theatre production on the topic is based have been identified and critically analysed. Then, a significative selection of plays has been studies, edited and in some cases translated for publication.