Cipriano Rivas Cherif
Cipriano Rivas Cherif (1891–1967) was a Spanish playwright and director, owner of the Caracol Theatre Club and one of the pioneering directors of the Spanish theatrical avant-garde in the early twentieth century. He was among the contributors of the Madrid-based avant-garde magazine Prometeo published between 1908 and 1912. In 1934, he was offered the concession for the Teatro María Guerrero, a theatre in Madrid, by the Spanish government free-of-charge, making it possible for him to use it for his School of Art Theatre (Teatro Escuela de Arte).
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Cipriano Rivas Cherif (1891–1967) was a Spanish playwright and director, owner of the Caracol Theatre Club and one of the pioneering directors of the Spanish theatrical avant-garde in the early twentieth century. He was among the contributors of the Madrid-based avant-garde magazine Prometeo published between 1908 and 1912. In 1934, he was offered the concession for the Teatro María Guerrero, a theatre in Madrid, by the Spanish government free-of-charge, making it possible for him to use it for his School of Art Theatre (Teatro Escuela de Arte).
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- 1.[Sánchez-Cascado, M.J., «Ideas teatrales de Don Cipriano de Rivas Cherif», Teatro: revista de estudios teatrales, Nº 1, 1992, págs. 141-146.
- 2.Santos Juliá. Introducción. EN: Azaña, Manuel. Diarios, 1932-1933: los cuadernos robados. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997 (ISBN 84-7423-868-4)
- 3.«La gran aventura de Rivas Cherif», por Marcos Ordóñez en diario El País, 20/02/2014
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- 5.[Aguilera Sastre, J. «El teatro experimental como alternativa (1920-1929)», Cipriano Rivas Cherif. Retrato de una utopía. Cuadernos El público, nº42, Madrid: Centro de Documentación Teatral, 1989.
- 6.[ Gil Fombellida, M.C. Rivas Cherif, Margarita Xirgu y el teatro de la II República. Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 2003, pág. 41-42.]
- 7.[Anderson, A.A. «Coincidencias y paralelismo: las carreras teatrales de Ricardo Baeza y Cipriano Rivas Cherif», Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas 21-26 de agosto de 1995, Birmingham, Vol. 4, 1998, pp. 41-49.]
- 8.[Aguilera Sastre, J. «Del teatro comercial a una escuela integral del arte escénico (1929-1936)», Cipriano Rivas Cherif. Retrato de una utopía. Cuadernos El público, nº42, Madrid: Centro de Documentación Teatral, 1989]
- 9.[Aznar Soler, M. «Rivas Cherif y el Teatro-Escuela del Dueso (1943-1945»,Cipriano Rivas Cherif. Retrato de una utopía. Cuadernos El público, nº42, Madrid: Centro de Documentación Teatral, 1989.]
- 10.[Rivas Cherif, C. El Teatro Escuela de El Dueso. Apuntes para una historia. Juan Aguilera Sastre (Ed.). Madrid: Ediciones del Orto (Colección Brevarios de Talía 3/4), 2010]
- 11.[De Rivas, E. «Exilio en México, Puerto Rico y Guatemala» en Cipriano Rivas Cherif. Retrato de una utopía. Cuadernos El público, nº42, Madrid: Centro de Documentación Teatral, 1989.]
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