Rivas Cherif, creator and host of cutting-edge theater New School, White blackbird, The Broken Pitcher, Snail, began with them from 1920 to 1929, the renovation of the Spanish scene. Renovation that introduced professional companies from 1929 to 1936, notably the Margarita Xirgu. It was the first theater director who performed in Spain great shows for the masses (Medea and Electra at the Roman Theater in Merida in 1933, The Mayor of Zalamea in the Plaza de Toros de Madrid in 1934; etc.), and who took the best scene of the greatest Spanish writers of the thirties: Valle Inclan, Unamuno, Alberti, Casona, Perez de Ayala, García Lorca, etc. He Foundation Theatre School of Art was also due, the basic principles encourage the writing of this volume, written entirely in the Criminal Dueso Santona, in 1945, as a result of their experiences in front of the Theatre School who also founded and he led for two years in the prison, while serving the sentence imposed by the Franco dictatorship.
The intrinsic to its teachings dynamics and his extensive theater work is evident while it can be identified with the most modern theater currents from the time of Rivas Cherif still maintain their effect, for carrying within it the seeds of authentic renovations, inseparable the very essence of theater.