El último Verso

A comedy in which Horacio, eldest son of the Roldáns, discovers that the new play by Federico García Lorca takes the Albas, another of the families of the Vega de Granada, as its model, and decides to halt its publication.

The action is set in the Vega de Granada, where for decades three lineages that share land and power have lived alongside one another in rivalry: the Roldán, the Alba and the García Lorca. Horacio, the eldest son of the Roldáns, discovers that La casa de Bernarda Alba, the next play by Federico García Lorca, is inspired by the Albas, with whom he himself has a family connection.

Horacio fails to carve out a place for himself among the intellectual and artistic elite, and his constant need for family approval adds to the pressure exerted by the matriarch of the Albas, the figure on whom the character of Bernarda is based. This mix of frustration and wounded pride leads him to try to prevent the play from being published and to plan revenge against the poet.

The show is staged at the Teatro Serrano, in Madrid, and revolves around the protagonist and the tangles between rival families, in a comic register that follows Horacio's decisions.