While you watch the sun

AUTHOR: Víctor Segundo Vegas Gatica

Synopsis

Some early morning, after a night of carousing, Paul, a seller of computers (heterosexual, middle-class, with ten years of marriage and two children, wakes up in a motel room road without having the slightest idea of how he has gone up there. Do not spend a lot of time without realizing something: in the room there is another man, Theo, an illegal immigrant who usually provide sexual favors in the gay bars of the city in exchange for a few greenbacks. Two worlds, two realities facing, two different ways of understanding and living life. "Each has his particular tragedy," wrote Henry Miller. Paul and Theo talk to us about yours in this work. And all the while dawns...

Technical data

Original language:
Spanish

Gender:
Drama

Female characters:
None

Male characters:
2

Released, Unreleased

Space
1

Duration
60 - 90 min.

Time
Contemporary

Year of establishment
2006

Other data

Release date: 24/08/2007

Place of premiere: Teatro San Martín, Caracas, Venezuela

Artistic team: David Villegas y William Escalante. Dir. Gonzalo Cubero

Translated to: English

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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