Las guerras contemporáneas en la dramaturgia catalana del siglo XXI

Catalan drama in the first two decades of the 21st century has also dealt with more contemporary wars, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. This paper analyses a limited corpus of plays in the light of several theoretical approaches to the link between war and theatre. First, it examines plays that deliberately refer to war conflicts in the abstract: Presoners de l'aigua by Josep Lluís Roig, La pell en flames by Guillem Clua, Estralls by Jordi Casanovas and La finestra by Ignasi Garcia i Barba. Secondly, works dealing with well-known wars are considered: Dones, dones, dones and Bagdad -dones al jardí- by Manuel Molins, Testimoni de guerra by Pau Carrió i Llucià, Els gossos by Manuel Brugarolas and Em dic llibertat by Olena Romaniuk. From the interpretation of all of them, finally, a series of general reflections are inferred on the ethical value of warthemed drama, the disparity between its abstract and concrete approach, the coincidence in reflecting the effects of war -especially serious for the civilian population- and the functions that theatre can assume in the face of the horror of war.