This article treats the subject of one of the most important events regarding theatrical historiography in Spain in the last third of the 20th century, the staging of El Público by Federico García Lorca directed by Lluís Pasqual at the María Guerrero Theatre in Madrid. Wilfully respecting the amazing and enigmatic Lorca text, a scenic imagery was materialized recreating the aesthetic, social and personal transgression of drama to the last consequences. The performance, an authentic interpretive exercise of great aesthetic efficiency, had an excellent reception and achieved great international recognition.