Parents & Children

AUTHOR: Víctor Segundo Vegas Gatica

Synopsis

The Hidalgos are waiting for the imminent return of their son Javier after a long period of absence, for Christmas. Javier is coming back from the US where he has been living for a while in order to experience the ‘enemy’ first-hand, the ‘belly of the “empire”’. Simón and Alicia Hidalgo are anti-capitalists and anti-imperialists, with deeply entrenched left-wing beliefs. They have brought up their children, Javier and Ana, with these values. But on his return home from a long stint in the US, Javier has prepared a surprise for them. Parents and Children is a play of everyday lives that introduces us to a family that, although they may not be completely ordinary, are very similar to us in various ways: we were all children once, and at some point we are, or will be, parents. Leo Tolstoy once wrote that all happy families are similar, but that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Technical data

Original language:
Spanish

Gender:
Drama

Female characters:
3

Male characters:
2

Released, Unreleased

Space
1

Duration
60 - 90 min.

Time
Contemporary

Year of establishment
2009

Other data

Release date: 20/01/2013

Place of premiere: Forum San Antonio, Mexico CITY, Mexico

Artistic team: Oscar Yoldi, María Del Carmen Félix, Diana Brugada and Ricardo Ian. Dir. Aida Andrade

Víctor Vegas
About the author

Víctor Segundo Vegas Gatica

Narrator and playwright venezuelan. He studied Engineering in Computer science at the University of west central Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA) Barquisimeto, from where he graduated in 1992. He has published the plaquette of mini-stories “Misfortune of objects”; the works of theatre “Piece for two actors,” “When we're great”, A "feeling of life" and "A Kind of Magic"; the story long “Messages on the wall”; the collections of stories "The nature of things" and “Messages on the wall”, by which he obtained, in 2007, the Municipal Prize of Literature of Caracas; and the novels “The age of rock and roll” and "they call Me Big". His stories have received numerous awards and accolades, and have been included in several anthologies of Spain and Venezuela. His pieces of theatre, in addition to winning, have been represented with good reception from the public and critics in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, USA, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Since 2008 he resides in Madrid.

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