Puppets of the moon

AUTHOR: Jorge Marquez Diaz

Synopsis

Two friends, drunken revellers and marginalized, they decide to visit a night in the cemetery where a third friend has just been buried, unaware that in reality one of them has been summoned there by the Moon to be reunited with her beloved, dead a long time ago.

Technical data

Original language:
Spanish

Gender:
Comedy Drama

Female characters:
2

Male characters:
4

Premiered, Edited

Space
1

Duration
60 - 90 min.

Time
Timeless

Year of establishment
1988

Other data

Release date: 1994

Place of premiere: Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid

Artistic team: Luis Varela, José Vicente Moirón, Valeriano Andrés, Vicky Lagos, Pepín Salvador, Elisenda Ribas

Date of Publication: 1996

Editorial: Fundamentos / Editora Regional de Extremadura

Jorge Márquez Díaz
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.

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