This 1991 poster promotes a production of Los soles truncos, one of the defining works of Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. First associated with Puerto Rico’s modern theatrical movement in the late 1950s, the drama was adapted from Marqués’s story “En una ciudad llamada San Juan” and centers on three sisters confronting the decline of their family, home, and inherited social world. The poster’s decaying interiors, shuttered doors, antique chairs, mirror, piano, and oil lamps evoke the fading domestic environment at the heart of the play. Issued for the thirty-second Festival de Teatro Puertorriqueño, the design also commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Centro de Bellas Artes and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Los soles truncos became one of the most frequently represented dramas in the ICP’s theater festivals and remains a major work of Puerto Rican dramatic literature.
This 1991 poster promotes a production of Los soles truncos, one of the defining works of Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. First associated with Puerto Rico’s modern theatrical movement in the late 1950s, the drama was adapted from Marqués’s story “En una ciudad llamada San Juan” and centers on three sisters confronting the decline of their family, home, and inherited social world. The poster’s decaying interiors, shuttered doors, antique chairs, mirror, piano, and oil lamps evoke the fading domestic environment at the heart of the play. Issued for the thirty-second Festival de Teatro Puertorriqueño, the design also commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Centro de Bellas Artes and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Los soles truncos became one of the most frequently represented dramas in the ICP’s theater festivals and remains a major work of Puerto Rican dramatic literature.
