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Miguel Romero García, better known as Miguel Romero Esteo (born 1930, Montoro, Córdoba) is a Spanish writer and university professor, whose work is part of the so-called Spanish post-war theatre. ==Biography== He was born in the Spanish town of Montoro (Córdoba) in 1930, and 1939 he moves to Málaga together with his family. In his youth, he graduates in Madrid in Journalism and Political Science, and he studies other university studies in Philosophy, Theology and Economics. Moreover, he studies piano, organ and composition, knowledge which he expresses in the musicality of his texts. He started his literary career in 1963, by writing poetry, novel and plays which were systematically prohibited by censorship. Due to his ''grotescomaquias'' during the decades of 1960s and 1970s, and always in the field of avant-garde theatre, Romero Esteo is considered as an eccentric and enfant terrible due to the scandals caused by his works. Along with Antonio Martínez Ballesteros, he configured the Young generation drama of the protest theatre and critical to the political system, within the so-called New Spanish Theatre. His second work, ''Pontifical'', which he sent to the New Theatre Festival of Sitges, in 1966, caused a heated fight in the jury among the loyals to the Francoist regime and neoliberals. This 450-page ''grotescomaquia'' would overstep all the time limits of a play with a duration of eight hours. Its immediate prohibition by censorship helped ''Pontifical'' to secretly move around among students in duplicate copies and to become a symbol of the oppressed protest theatre. In 1967 he worked as an editor in the Madrilenian newspaper Nuevo Diario, from which, through his articles, he helped the authors and the most innovating trends of worldwide dramaturgy become known in Spain. In 1972 he premieres in the New Theatre Festival of Sitges the play ''Paraphernalia de la olla podrida, la misericordia y la mucha consolación'', a show which was subsequently taken to Paris, in the frame of the 1st anti-Franco Week of the University of Sorbonne, and in 1973 he premieres ''Pasodoble'' at the Teatro Alfil during the New Theatre Festival of Madrid. Both plays are performed throughout the national territory for several years. In the decade of the 1980s he combined his job as a university professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of Málaga with his job as an author of theatre plays and stage director. With the performance of ''El vodevil de la pálida, pálida, pálida rosa'', Romero Esteo premiered for the first time in a Spanish commercial theatre –it was at the Teatro Jacinto Benavente in March 1981. Between 1983 and 1984 he was the director of Málaga International Theatre Festival. In 1985, he was awarded from Strasbourg the Europe Prize for his work, published in 1983, ''Tartessos''. On 15 July 1995 his play ''Pasodoble'' was performed in the hall Strassenbahndepot of Berlin. In 2001, during a talk of the 15th Congress of Contemporary Spanish Literature titled “Teatro y antiteatro. La vanguardia del drama experimental” (Theatre and Anti-theatre. The avant-garde of experimental drama), he confirmed a rumour that harassed him: Romero Esteo was once proposed for the Nobel Prize in Literature, ironically annotating that “''bigger cretins had been awarded that prize''”. On 20 October 2008 he would achieve the Spanish National Prize for Dramatic Literature, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for his work ''Pontifical'', forty-two years after sending it to that New Theatre Festival in 1966. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miguel Romero Esteo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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