TRANSITIONAL IDENTITIES: PAST AND PRESENT IN ÉRAMOS TAN JÓVENES (ANTONIA BUENO MINGALLÓN)

Abstract

Éramos tan jóvenes is the third part of the trilogy about the Spanish Transition to democracy by Antonia Bueno. In this play, the author presents the characters of Felipe, Mila and Lola, who meet in the funeral of Eva, the daughter of these, in the year 2001. By the use of the flashback, the piece goes through some of the most important events in the Spanish Transition from before the death of Franco since the last years of the 20th Century. The aim of this essay is, first, to analyze how the historical events are related to the lives of the three characters. And, secondly, to study the way in which the disorientation caused by the changes experienced in the Transition leads the characters to a diffuse identity because historical illusions are joined to their personal illusions.