“With a permanent aspiration for aesthetic innovation and transgression, Alfonso Vallejo’s plays aim to overcome realism through analytical introspection and philosophy. The heterodoxy, the spirit to transfer human solitude onto the stage, the heterogeneity of his approach and development, and a structure defined by its multi-colours, no doubt formed by its visual dimensions, are other characteristics of his dramatic works. Alfonso Vallejo’s works have nearly all be published and performed in such countries as the USA, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Poland.”

“The most qualified author of our time who is able to make a bold defence of realism and finally to establish a clear and effective code of communication. Nothing less.”

“A vigorous, entertaining and attractive play. You come out of the theatre with a feeling that you have come across a real author.”

“An interesting writer and full of talent.”

“A high flying play.”

“A writer that is beginning to have international recognition.”

“A warm reception of his works presented in America .”

“One of our greatest playwrights.”

“A fascination work. This is theatre.”

“A feast and a nightmare.”

“The paths that we have travelled through the distinctive works in the book establish that his works start a new era.”

"RODRIGUEZ VALLEJO (Alfonso). Spanish playwright, poet and painter, more known as Alfonso Vallejo, was born in Santander on the 19th August 1943. He studied at the Lycée Francés and the Universidad Complutense 1961 – 1966) where he qualified as a medical doctor. A profession he still practices today. He is a professor of Medical Pathology. He was awarded the "Lope de Vega" (1977), "Tirso de Molina" (1978), y "Fastenrath de la Real Academia" (1981)" prizes.

I write plays for actors. Plays for the kind of actors that go on stage to really be them selves, and to exist in what is a fully invented fictitious life for others. Plays for those who are really more than what they are on stage. Plays for those who are no more than what they are in stage. Plays for people who try to invent the theatre and their life from the beginning, on every occasion and in every character.
When I write I always think of the actors. I see them on stage. I feel them move, breath, talk, shouting, I can write in the colour of their eyes and I the sound of their voice. I feel happy when I give them the opportunity to create and advance. when the dramatic material allows them to go forward, to come out of them selves and to impose on the public, submit to them, seduce them and make them enjoy themselves not as a spectator, but as an accomplice of the play.
Actors are my allies, my friends.

“Dramatist, poet and painter. A medical doctor by profession, his works with a marked aspiration to innovate and transgress, intentionally crosses reality and fantasy for socio-political criticism. Always trying to break formal clichés and interweave them between man and the world with an in depth weave of analysis and philosophy.”

Vallejo, Alfonso (Santander 1943)
“The literary name of Alfonso Rodríguez Vallejo, a versatile intellectual, with a personality that includes a medical doctor, university professor, painter, poet and playwright.
“This is theatre that resists being pigeon holed in any category or mode of the Spanish panorama and in some cases, it seems much closer being part of other places in the world. He introduces universal conflicts such as war, and character having foreign names. Removing all realism, philosophical and scientific perspective; the author’s training in psychiatry is crucial here, and what surrounds his themes help give an unusual impression to his dramatic productions.....”

“Alfonso Vallejo (b.1943), a medical doctor with an outstanding professional career consistently dedicates himself to the theatre. He distances himself from the usual stage movements and has always written according to his conspicuous inspiration and proud of a singularly creative anarchy. He has had opening nights in commercial theatres and others which are not, published many of his works, which gave him a distinctive trajectory. Not happy with this, he also employs various other art forms, deliberately confusing his material in such a way that he paints with words, write poetry with colour paint and draws intriguing plays.”
“His independent personality, his way of seeing the world of culture from a scientific point of view, give a certain form of variety to his plays which depend on the technique, tonality and theme in each case. The stage is not an end for his passion, but a medium. His entry into theatre supposed a certain overcoming of reality, by means of scratching philosophical analysis , from ingenious aspects that also have elements of humour in them.”
“The irregular presence of Vallejo on the billboards again shows how difficult it is for prominent innovators of our time to have access to the stage.”

“These should signal the many reviving elements that are sown in such works as Fly-By (1973), Eclipse (1976), El cero transparente (1977) (Zero Temperature), Cangrejos de pared (1979) (Wall Crabs) and Orquídeas y panteras (1982) (Orchids and Panthers)”

“His plays dramatically introduce ethical and social questions with a stage language where love and violence are fundamental elements of expression.”

“His plays take a line of experimentation...”

“….. his drama productions, full of socio-political connotations, in which reality and fantasy constantly criss-cross each other.....”

“Alfonso Vallejo seems to have entered and grown in theatre by means of entries and drawbridges which are poorly or badly understood by us. And I speak formally, which shows how important this subject is. In the middle of a scrub there is a tree with a unique and solitary trunk, which converts these plays, for those who try to explore their interior, into what seems to be in Spain an unedited version. This is not because there are no precedents, but more because these are different what is usual here. And also because these past precedents are elegantly disillusionary in the energies and manner of the dramatist, that this remove the tracks that they leave on their back and convert them into wounds of themselves.“

"Alfonso Vallejo, an "author who is an island": ....It is the language, the word, which are the essence of Alfonso Vallejo’ s plays. A poetic and crude word sometime with corrosive humour. And some images that at times suggest the profession of a neurologist and an author who is also a poet and a painter. This journey to no where is what we are all waiting as an only means to escape form society. This is a tragic ritual, a sarcastic descent to hell, a theatrical ceremony with its completely modern scenic language, in its aesthetics, current themes and in its richness of the subtext.”

“When analysing the Vallejian drama I refer to those aspects of the works that have been representative. All reached universality, investigating the most profound and mysterious of man on how to be an individual and unique.”
"Alfonso Vallejo is a contemporary radical dramatist and hence, orders, extremisms, deforms, and transforms the signs of the exterior reality which time reveals and probes the interior of the would be human -the interior reality- creating with both the very same nightmare. The exterior and the interior, the tangible and the intangible, the common and the visionary, clarifying and confusing in a coherent dialogue that hardens into an aesthetic of the transgression."