The scandal caused by this parody of the poetry contest known as Jocs Florals in 1902 was quite exceptional. The play denounced the exalted idealism of an event that had become a propaganda vehicle for the new Catalan nationalism and revealed the seriousness of the numerous tensions running through Catalan society. A century later, Santiago Rusiñol’s lucid voice still speaks to us... in the form of a wild musical.
