I'm dying for you
AUTHOR: José Luis Alonso de Santos
Synopsis
An actress in paro has to fake a suicide to try to fall in love with a man. The love ends up being real, cocooned in an atmosphere of mystery and poetry. The work is presided over by a series of ballads, that are the soul of the story.
Technical data
Original language:
Spanish
Gender:
Comedy Drama
Female characters:
2
Male characters:
5
Edited
Space
1
Duration
60 - 90 min.
Time
Contemporary
Other data
Date of Publication: 2008
Editorial: Castalia (Obra Teatral, vol.2)
About the author
José Luis Alonso de Santos
Born in Valladolid (spain) and lives in Madrid. Graduated with a degree in Information Science, and Psychology. His theatrical career began in 1964 in the Independent Theatre and the Studio Theatre of Madrid. He has been director of the Royal School of Dramatic Art of Madrid, (and Professor of Dramatic Writing), director of the National Classical Theatre Company, and president of the Academy of Performing Arts in Spain. He is the author of fifty works, among them: get Off the moor, The estanquera de Vallecas and Wild-type (taken to the cinema), long Live the duke, our owner!, The album family, Peers, and Nines. He has performed versions of Plautus, Moreto, Aristophanes, Moliere, Shakespeare, Calderon. He has written movie scripts, television series, children's fiction, and books of theory in theater: The dramatic writing and Handbook of theory and theatrical practice. Awards: National Theatre, Tirso de Molina, Mayte, Gold Medal Theatre of Valladolid, Max Award, and the Premio Castilla y León de las Letras.
Specialty
Author
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Of the many mysteries of life, I'm most passionate about is that of human relations: our ways of living together, of us, emotions and words to each other, to allow ourselves to be flooded by the water to our thirst, which flows out of the other who is on our side. Nothing exists if we cannot tell the tale, and the main emotions and passions that we feel are caused by others: love, desire, friendship, happiness, loneliness, the search for the other to be able to be ourselves... I have used the humor, as in so many of my works, to be able to talk about this issue of coexistence (perhaps the most important of our time) in a way close and festive. We are what we receive from others, and it is well that we embrace all that comes to us from outside as the most beautiful gift that life gives us, and we delivered those who sit next to us to eat, we talk, we look, we feel, we hear...
Al morir, el viejo emperador Claudio, conecta con nuestra época, y trata de contarnos, y revivir los acontecimientos y sucesos más importantes de su vida. Al ser historiador intenta entender y poner orden en las absurdas y terribles circunstancias de su vida. Rodeado por los personajes que fueron más importantes en su historia.
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(Obra basada en la novela de Robert Graves)
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A series of comic / dramatic situations build a critical / humorous retable of violence, discipline, the world and war. The choral songs frame the style of the show.
Los cinco personajes de esta obra viven una serie de conflictos y situaciones que nos sirven para dibujar su carácter y su destino. Los protagonistas son unos viejos gatos en un caserón de campo abandonado. Allí reviven los ecos, dimensiones y emociones de otros tiempos, y la búsqueda de un futuro imposible ante un mundo nuevo que destruirá todo lo anterior.
El tiempo y el espacio se convierten en protagonistas del drama, al tomar cuerpo y dimensión escénica. Paralelamente se viven dos historias de amor, la de los personajes que ven cerrarse el horizonte de su vida, y la de los personajes que empiezan el camino, y que, al descubrir el amor, encuentran un nuevo sentido a sus vidas.
El mundo del circo aporta unas pinceladas al cuadro, como el mundo barroco y decadente de los jardines del pasado o de la música de Mozart, con la mirada filosófica –escéptica y resignada- de Marca Aurelio, y su importante obra Meditaciones.
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A vis-à-vis prison, gives us foot to get into the mysterious world of sex between bars. Misunderstandings and humorous vignettes in which you are going to develop a loving relationship of an odd couple. And far away the illusion of Hawaii, a happy world where it is possible the realization of the desires of the characters.
A young married couple representative of the social success looks broken the monotony by the appearance of two women crazy and peculiar that have escaped from prison. Victims of domestic violence, they decided this time to be the executioners. And it triggers a spiral that will get discovered many false personality components socially correct.
A mother arrives at the hospital and tries to sow the desire to live in his daughter, destroyed in a family relationship and social wrong. In the short time of your visit, try to change the situation pessimistic and negative-that has been established, and shall endeavour to seek a way out of the alley closed in where so many times we find ourselves cornered.
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Angel, a young offender and ex-addict out of jail the day of her birthday. When you return to your normal life in a slum, next to an american base, is reunited with his troubled family and social environment. Soon you will be immersed in a fight between yonquis and the u.s., because of his sister, who works in a bar. His lawyer, advocate, in love with an Angel, is ready to get your social integration. A spiral of violence, where everything will complicate, surrounding the boy to prevent their recovery.
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30 short pieces, of situations of love and humor, to represent by four or more players. Problems, crisis, fights, erotica... each day, between the woman and the man, at the same time that a portrait of our society.
Two women's professional and independent, which theoretically have equal opportunities as men, but that a series of obstacles limit those rights. We see the difficulties of the protagonists to find a minimum of happiness and balance in your life, and the friendship that binds them, a bond that will allow them to survive in this framework as hostile.
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Franco and his generals are going to have dinner in the Palace to win the civil war, and by a series of circumstances have to make your dinner prisoners of war. Within the story, epic and dramatic, it develops a love story.
Two immigrant men, unknown, and quite different, are immersed in a boat in the middle of the sea in a situation of smuggling and danger, which lays bare their ambitions, desires and difficulties to integrate into a normal life.
A marriage of middle-age in different Sundays in the morning, in the four seasons, with Vivaldi's music in the background. The situation, apparently comical and trivial, it is full of elements superrealistas and dreamlike.
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From the idea of the works of the Archpriest of Hita, and with the reference to the box of Brueghel, work party, carnival, street theatre, floats, music, dancing, hors d'oeuvres, etc
Story of love and fantasy set in a magical world, based on the legend of the dragon that kidnapped a princess , in which they arise, with humor and poetry, a series of events with a final very striking and peculiar.
Meet at the consultation of a psychiatrist, he, and two beings crazy and peculiar that break their schemes. The limit between an integrated and two-corrosive sons of a modern urban environment, which require their territory and their survival. When you remove the shoring-up routine, habits and rules of the game social, everything is vanished like soap bubbles.
Two criminals of the fourth come to rob a tobacconist in a poor neighborhood of a large city, and, by the resistance of the estanquera to his threats, she and her daughter are taken hostage, which leads to the presence of the police and the pressure to deliver. What at first had to produce rejection, generates affection, and what more he had to separate to attackers and attacked, unites them.
A current character relive their memories and their dreams at the time that formed his personality. Traveling with your whole family in a train ghostly by the Spanish civil war. He chairs the travel photographs of her album family. Social conflict and intimate between the forces in the struggle that took place within and outside of the character.
A man of humble origin has been studied a book about the Roman Empire and tries to give a lecture on the topic, in an atmosphere of unreality and with a great dose of humor surreal. And a final surprise, as it dipped both in the paper that represents you, you just live in reality.
This work is based on the myth of the traditional "The Sleeping Beauty". From this topic, the plot will be taking your own body and the exploration of new possibilities dramatic changes theatrical, especially at the end.
A group of young people live together in a flat in urban and seek their place in the world, between the margins and the integration. Their coexistence generates love and heartbreak, a sense of the remoteness of the society and the differences between the principles and the reality.
A small circus, ruined and very peculiar is in the process of garnishment. There comes a clown new brings hope. Events and difficulties to go forward, and, in the background, a romantic love story.
Love story mad about internal mental hospital. Reality and madness are blended in the mind of the sick in love and on the stage. Their successive discoveries prevent them from performing their romance, in the middle of adventure, mystery, persecutions, etc
Two men separated disenchanted, sentimentally, who have never understood truth to women and now they are trying to catch the fleeting flight of a new illusion: Nines, to fill the void of his life. Jealousy, eroticism and friendship serve to get into some of the conflicts faced by the man of today.
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