Paco Bezerra

Plays by Paco Bezerra: Cutting-Edge Spanish Theatre

Grooming; Lord Ye Loves Dragons; Lulu; I Die for I Die Not
Übersetzer: Pujol, Anton

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Produktbeschreibung

This vital anthology includes fresh translations of four of Paco Bezerra's plays in one edited collection for the first time in English. Winner of the National Literary Drama Award in 2009 and the Calderon de la Barca Theatre Drama Prize for New Authors in 2007, Paco Bezerra has become one of the most lauded and essential voices in the Spanish theatrical scene. His works have received both critical and audience acclaim, and his plays have been performed throughout Europe, South America and Asia. In the four plays included in this volume, Bezerra addresses critical issues such as child abuse, racism and women's rights. And, in a manner common to all of his works, Bezerra continually explores how marginalization weaves into all aspects of human existence. Together with an edited introduction to Bezerra's work and world, this collection offers a rare insight into contemporary Spanish theatre for performance and study.

Produktdetails

• Methuen Drama Play Collections
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9781350367562
• ISBN-10: 1350367567
• Artikelnr.: 67788779

Autorenporträt

Paco Bezerra is a recipient of numerous awards, including the National Literary Drama Award in 2009 and the Calderon de la Barca Theatre Drama Prize for New Authors in 2007. His plays have been premiered in eleven countries and translated in more than ten languages. Anton Pujol is Associate Professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Translator's Notes Grooming - Grooming follows one middle-aged
man and one young woman who meet in a park at night after flirting online.
The man blackmails her with sensitive material from their online chats, but
the tables soon turn, and it will be the young woman who entraps the man in
a game where the playwright daringly explores the limits and consequences
of paraphilias. Mr. Ye Loves Dragons - Mr. Ye Loves Dragons explores the
issue of racism with four neighbors in a low-income building: a Chinese
mother and her daughter and two Spanish women who believe the daughter is
illegally hiding people in the basement. Lulú - In Lulú, Amancio, a
widower, discovers the body of an unconscious, naked woman in the middle of
a forest. He takes her to the home he shares with his two grown sons where
tragedy will soon unravel. Bezerra's retelling of the Lilith or Lulu's myth
abruptly changes when the woman addresses the audience and utters her real
name: Lucía. I Die for I Die Not - One of Bezerra's most recent works, I
Die for I Die Not is an experimental dramatization of a woman whose story
has been silenced and heavily manipulated by the powers-that-be; a women
whose agency has been stolen by the respective hegemonic narrative that
plagues the world to this day.