Two Documents on the Functioning of the Amateur Company of the Teatre del Carme in Barcelona (1824/1837)

Abstract

Until the beginning of the second third of the 19th century the monopoly of theatrical performances in favor of the Hospital of each major city remained in force. In Barcelona, during the first decades of the 1800s, several independent or amateur theatres emerged, especially after the breakdown of the monopoly that took plake in the year 1834. The work makes known two internal regulations of two of these amateur companies which make it possible to know the members who made them up, the internal organization, the discipline by which they were governed, some of the resources they had or to appreciate its semi-professional nature. Furthermore, when it comes to the company or companies that operated under the same name, we could perhaps infere (despite the prohibitions) a certain continuity of activity over time, even if we're looking at different spaces and a separation of a dozen years.