Games dawn
AUTHOR: Jorge Marquez Diaz
Synopsis
Two women spend the night playing between reality and fantasy.
Technical data
Original language:
Spanish
Gender:
Comedy Drama
Female characters:
2
Male characters:
None
Premiered, Edited
Space
1
Duration
60 - 90 min.
Time
Timeless
Year of establishment
1982
Other data
Release date: 1982
Place of premiere: Teatro Menacho. Badajoz
Artistic team: Salor Corbacho, Berta Gómez
Date of Publication: 1982
Editorial: Diputación de Badajoz.
About the author
Jorge Marquez Diaz
He has written more than twenty plays and received the premio Lope de Vega, "the Knives of paper" (2010), which speaks of "the decline of the western society of today, that foster the ambition for money and the status of the individual at any price and at the expense of values such as honesty, solidarity, friendship, and even the family and, finally, one's own life". Performed in addition to adaptations of texts of Sophocles, García de la Huerta and Lope de Vega. He has also written essay and novels, of which "The light of the thirteen dogs" (1997) was awarded first prize City of Salamanca. According to the Spanish Wesley J. Weaver III, his theatre is the tone of hyper-realism and its characters more tours are the outcasts and losers. He led the International Festival of Classical Theatre of Mérida between 2000 and 2005.
Specialty
Author
Blind after learning of his tragic past, old Oedipus wanders, accompanied by his daughter Antigone, until he reaches Colono, a suburb of Athens where, as the gods told him, Oedipus must die.
A woman lives through her husband's contempt and infidelity. One day, tired of humiliation, she will make a terrible choice.
An old man xenophobic, racist, and their character is unstable and falls in love with her neighbor from the floor below, much younger, and married to a scientist algerian. The work explores the relationships of the triangle in the eyes of the cat, the old and the canary of the couple, who are involved as two characters more.
The Spanish conqueror, on his deathbed in Seville, remember your life, and particularly the invasion of Mexico, which he captained.
Two old actors playing over the scene interspersing the theatre, and his own life, and partner relationship.
Tres personajes comparten su soledad sobre el trasfondo de una cutre pero acogedora pensión madrileña. Un cuarto individuo, joven y descarado, se aprovecha de la dueña de la pensión, vive a su costa y la maltrata.
Entre sueños y delirios transcurre la noche y hasta una larga mañana en la que nunca llega a amanecer. En esas horas, los personajes amasan la utopía de un mundo ideal, rebosante de dulzura, placer, risa y magia; o sea, de vida, y se obstinan en hacer de esta noche eterna un hermoso cuento de amor escrito con tinta caliente. Unos a otros parecen rogarse: Hazme de la noche un cuento que acabe de una vez por todas con tanta pesadilla incompartible.
The tuerta luck of Perico Tortoise is the cartoon tragicomic of a misfortune common: they are born, grow, mature, and lose the first few illusions as we go leaving hairs in the legs. Although told with all the humor and skepticism as a counterpart, it should provide us with the same teaching.
In the last second of his life, a man tries desperately to understand what causes personal and social brought him to a death as inevitable as absurd. The star of "Knives" paper is one of the millions of individuals who allow themselves to be swept by the power of an ambition cancerous up to that corner of the fortune", where the will already hardly can do anything for us in our human condition, and humanitarian, lost in the obsessive search for a way of living in the fund is only satisfies the most primitive of us.
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