Durante la Guerra Civil española el teatro se utilizó en ambos bandos como arma de combate mediante la representación de obras de propaganda destinadas a la movilización y adoctrinamiento de la población. En Valladolid, ciudad enclavada en la España sublevada, se estrenaron veinte obras de alto contenido ideológico, principalmente comedias de escasa calidad, que buscaban denigrar al enemigo, sublimar el ideario de los sublevados y provocar la exaltación de los espectadores. Pese al interés de las autoridades por su divulgación no obtuvieron la respuesta esperada de un público que, precisamente, se refugiaba en el ocio para evadirse de la guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War, both factions used propagandistic theater plays in order to indoctrinate and call up the audience. Up to twenty different plays were performed in Valladolid, a city within the nationalist territory; all of them had a large ideological content and the vast majority were poor-quality comedies advocating the rebel ideology in which the enemy was denigrated with the objective of inflaming the audience. Despite the interest of the authorities, these plays were not as popular among the population as it was expected, an interesting fact considering that the population tried to ease the stress caused by the war through leisure.
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