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Product details

  • ISBN 9781854594181
  • Weight: 321g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Oct 1999
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.

This volume contains:

Sergi Belbel's Caresses translated by John London
A disturbing picture of contemporary society against a background of urban alienation.

Juan Mayorga's The Scorched Garden translated by Nick Drake
About a group of inmates locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War.

David Planell's Bazaar translated by John Clifford
Undercurrents of racism surface poisonously during the course of a hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV.

Antonio Onetti's Bleeding Heart translated by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate
Set in contemporary Seville where a naive, middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'.

Lluïsa Cunillé's Roundabout translated by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate
A fascinating study of obsession and delusion.

Paloma Pedrero's Wolf Kisses translated by Roxana Silbert
A young woman returns to her rural village home to await her Parisian lover despite the hostility of the villagers.
About
Elyse Dodgson (1945-2018) was a longstanding member of the Royal Court Theatre's artistic team - first as Director of the Young People’s Theatre and then as International Director, heading the Court’s International Department. She was the first director of the Royal Court International Residency, which she started in 1989, and produced the Royal Court Young Writers’ Festival (1986-91) and more than 30 full productions of new international plays. She coordinated long-term play development projects in many parts of the world including Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Georgia, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, Uganda and South Africa. She was the recipient of the 2004 Young Vic Award and in 2010 received an MBE for services to international theatre and young writers overseas.