In Conversation: Paloma Pedrero

Final act of the series focus in four of the most featured Spanish playwriters currently. Spanish playwright Paloma Pedrero studied Sociology at Madrid's Universidad Complutense before becoming involved in the reestablishment of Madrid's theatre's scene following the death of Franco, as a member of the Cachivache theatre group. Her first play, La llamada de Lauren, in which she also played the role of Rosa, was staged in 1985. Since then she has written much more material, acted both on the stage and television, and directed productions of her own works. She has also cultivated a prolific career as a conference speaker and essayist Paloma Pedrero won the 1987 Tirso de Molina Award for Invierno de luna alegre. Pedrero's plays are, for the most part, short quasi-comedies that explore questions of identity, the subversion of gender roles, and the nature of individual freedom in postmodern society, based around a neorealist model.