Pedro Pérez Fernández

Pedro Pérez Fernández (1885 – 1956) was a Spanish dramatist. Born in

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, he was one of the authors of comic theatre called the . He had a special and fruitful collaboration with

Pedro Muñoz Seca Pedro Muñoz Seca (20 February 1879 – 28 November 1936 ) was a Spanish comic playwright. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his era. He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both '' sainetes'' (short vignettes) and longer play ...

(''Los extremeños se tocan'', 192

. He wrote stories, articles and narrations for different weekly magazines. Its theater production - of considerable volume is in most of the cases in collaboration with other humorous authors of success. He cultivated the astracanada, sainete, the comedy, the zarzuela, and the called "humorous toy", within the commercial theater. Among the authors he collaborated with are Pedro Muñoz Seca, Luis Fernandez Ardavín, Fernando Luque or Enrique Garcia Alvarez. As his friend Pedro Muñoz Seca, he was a Nationalist sympathiser and had to hide during the

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due to the risk of being executed (as indeed happened to his friend Pedro Muñoz Seca in November 1936). He died in

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in 1956. 1885 births 1956 deaths Writers from Seville Spanish male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Spanish male writers {{spain-dramatist-stub