Maria Verger was stigmatized for being free and a leftist. Teresa Pàmies, Mercè Rodoreda, Aurora Bertrana, and Teresa Juvé survived exile by working as domestic servants. Dolors Orriols was denied a press card because, according to the regime, she had to care for her son and husband. Assumpció Soler's life was made impossible for her being a single mother. Joana Raspall was expelled from the library corps. Elvira Augusta Lewi disappeared.

One of the obligations (we say this because it is included in the programme contract that the director on duty assumes) of the TNC is the recovery of historical Catalan drama. At the request of the writer Julià Guillamon, this season the spotlight has been turned on the writer, journalist, playwright and activist Rosa Maria Arquimbau (1909-1992), considered a reference as a "woman of letters" and one of the six best Catalan novelists of the 1930s together with Merca Aña and Merca Aña with Merce Aná Murcia Análite with Merce A.

Rosa Maria Arquimbau (Barcelona, ​​​​1909-1992) was one of the most relevant feminist voices of the mid-twentieth century in Catalonia, but practically all of her theatrical work was buried in oblivion. Her most outstanding show, Marie, the red one, premiered in 1938 in Barcelona, ​​although at that time "President Lluís Companys asked Catalans not to go to the theatre, to pay attention to the Civil War," recalls documentary filmmaker Bernat Reher. Almost three decades after his death, the figure of Arquimbau has experienced a return to bookstores in recent years, with volumes such as the Collected theatre (Arola, 2020) and the collection of newspaper articles Film & Soda (Comanegra, 2022). Now, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC) wants to contribute by putting it back on the top of the stage with the production of Marie, the red one, which opens this Thursday and will be at the Sala Petita until April 6.