Salbatore Mitxelena’s A Country at the Cruxifixion. A Sociological, Theological and Political Portrait of a Basque Existentialist Mindset, Written in Theatrical Code

Abstract

The dramatic piece A Country at the Cruxifixion is a portrait written to be read, with another version to play on the stage under the title Confixus. As a portrait, it narrates the internal conflicts of the Franciscan author, who experienced the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the exile. The drama is also a representation of Basque Christian society and the rawness of existence of that generation. Mitxelena wrote the portrait of these conflicts in the theater code building a metatheatre spectacle with historical data and a way of understanding existentialism combined with Christianity.