''La sirena varada'' is a Spanish play by

Alejandro Casona Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona (3 March 1903 – 17 September 1965) was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and la ...

written in 1934 during his stay in Valle de Arán. It is about a mermaid who falls in love with a man named Ricardo. It was released at

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in Madrid in the night of 17 March 1934, which was directed by

Margarita Xirgu Margarita Xirgu Subirá (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, Barcelona, Spain – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, Uruguay), also Margarida Xirgu, was a Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend o ...

and Enrique Borrás and it got good reviews. Main characters were portrayed by Margarita Xirgu as Sirena, Enrique Borrás as Samy, Pedro López Lagar as Ricardo, Alberto Contreras as Don Florín, Fernando Aguirre Rodil as Fantasma and Enrique Guitart as Don Joaquín. In 1934 it received the Premio Lope de Vega at

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for best play of the year.

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