Name: The Girls' Consent
Start: 2026-01-18T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-18T21:00:00+01:00
Location: malaga

The Girls' Consent

Event details

Teatro Echegaray, malaga, malaga

18 January 2026 until 18 January 2026

# Málaga

Leandro Fernández de Moratín wrote El sí de las niñas in 1801. It was the first work he wrote after La comedia nueva, since both El barón and La mojigata, which premiered later, were written in the late 80s. Moratín took several years to premiere it. He presented his previous productions on stage, and only later decided to publish El sí de las niñas in 1806. During January 1806, he rehearsed the comedy with the company at the Teatro de la Cruz. The premiere took place on January 24, 1806. El sí de las niñas was not only a resounding public success: it was the most well-received work of its time and almost certainly the major theatrical event of the century. The play was performed continuously for twenty-six days and attracted more than 37,000 spectators, a figure equivalent to a quarter of the adult population of Madrid. The success on stage was matched by the editorial success. In addition to the four editions of 1806, there was also an edition in 1805, which apparently was not the only one that year.

The unprecedented success of El sí de las niñas paradoxically led to the author's withdrawal from the stage. The only texts that Moratín would present on stage were two adaptations of works by the French playwright Molière: La escuela de los maridos and El médico a palos. However, El sí de las niñas continued to provoke both hatred and enthusiasm for its message clearly inspired by the Enlightenment and a call for authority to act according to rationalist dictates. In 1815, with the restoration of King Fernando VII, the Spanish Inquisition found sufficient reasons to ban this comedy and La mojigata. The ban was renewed in 1823, so for about twenty years, Spaniards were deprived of seeing Moratín's masterpiece on stage. When the ban was lifted and the work could be staged again in 1838, it was even performed with cuts due to censorship.

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