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Book of Latin American Plays: La Chunga; Paper Flowers; Medea in the Mirror

Book of Latin American Plays: La Chunga; Paper Flowers; Medea in the Mirror

Paperback

Series: Play Anthologies

Plays

ISBN10: 0413773787
ISBN13: 9780413773784
Publisher: Berg 3pl
Published: Jul 13 2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

A collection of extraordinary, playable translations from across the Latin American continent, including a new Mario Vargas Llosa play


In La Chunga by Mario Vargas Llosa a young gambler down on his luck lends his girlfriend to the lady bar-keeper for the night to pay off a debt. Four years later the girl has neither been seen nor heard of, and the gamblers meet to speculate on the events of that fateful night.

In Paper Flowers by Egon Wolff, Eva, a lonely middle class woman puts up a tramp for the night out of the kindness of her heart, only to find that he intends to occupy her life as well as her house, reducing her once and for all to his state.

Medea in the Mirror by José Triana is an extraordinary re-setting of the Medea story in the Cuban revolution of 1959. As Maria, a young mulatto takes her revenge on Julian for abandoning her for someone else - the play becomes a mirror for the events that took place when Castro ousted the Batista regime.

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