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Selected Plays by Griselda Gambaro: Siamese Twins; Mother by Trade; As the Dream Dictates; Asking Too Much; Persistence; Dear Ibsen, I Am Nora; The Gi
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Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections, Book 24
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ISBN10: 1350233641
ISBN13: 9781350233645
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 19 2022
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781350233645
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 19 2022
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Griselda Gambaro is arguably Argentina's foremost dramatist and playwright, whose poetics not only interpret Argentine reality but transcend cultural and geographical borders. Popular across Latin America and Europe, her plays lack recognition in the UK due to the lack of English translations - a problem that this welcome anthology solves.
Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, Gambaro has produced work from the 1960s through to the 1990s, which this collection chronicles. As radical and endlessly playful as they are inventive, Gambaro's plays make searing comments on domestic and political issues: an experience which may not be comfortable but is always vital. Dazzling, original, incisive and poetic; no one made theatre like Griselda Gambaro.
Siamese Twins (1967)
In this absurd and forceful play, two brothers (one weak, one strong) play out a primal scene of envy, cruelty and torture as one exerts his power and aggression over the other.
Mother by Trade(1997)
A mother meets her daughter forty years after she abandoned her as an infant; the daughter, in turn, discovers the mother cohabiting with her lesbian partner of twenty-five years. Melodrama ensues.
As the Dream Dictates (1999)
How can we look to the future if there is great trauma in our past? In this play, only the untethered thinking that comes with dreaming can deliver that immense freedom.
Asking Too Much (2001)
In this deeply poetic play, love is just a memory... and with all the messiness, the hiatuses, contradictions and traps which memory brings, can love exist at all?
Persistence(2004)
Based on the 2004 Beslan massacre in Russia, three Chechnyan rebels take children hostage, tackling the difficult contradictions found in Islamic Terrorism.
Dear Ibsen, I Am Nora (2012)
Nora, the character created by Henrik Ibsen in A Doll's House, decides to confront her own creator and to debate with him his words and actions. In doing so, she becomes the author of her own identity, whilst making the playwright into a character.
The Gift(2015)
Márgara is a woman with the gift of prophecy... but people do not believe her, even though she predicts hope for the world. Will humanity be able to hear her?
Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, Gambaro has produced work from the 1960s through to the 1990s, which this collection chronicles. As radical and endlessly playful as they are inventive, Gambaro's plays make searing comments on domestic and political issues: an experience which may not be comfortable but is always vital. Dazzling, original, incisive and poetic; no one made theatre like Griselda Gambaro.
Siamese Twins (1967)
In this absurd and forceful play, two brothers (one weak, one strong) play out a primal scene of envy, cruelty and torture as one exerts his power and aggression over the other.
Mother by Trade(1997)
A mother meets her daughter forty years after she abandoned her as an infant; the daughter, in turn, discovers the mother cohabiting with her lesbian partner of twenty-five years. Melodrama ensues.
As the Dream Dictates (1999)
How can we look to the future if there is great trauma in our past? In this play, only the untethered thinking that comes with dreaming can deliver that immense freedom.
Asking Too Much (2001)
In this deeply poetic play, love is just a memory... and with all the messiness, the hiatuses, contradictions and traps which memory brings, can love exist at all?
Persistence(2004)
Based on the 2004 Beslan massacre in Russia, three Chechnyan rebels take children hostage, tackling the difficult contradictions found in Islamic Terrorism.
Dear Ibsen, I Am Nora (2012)
Nora, the character created by Henrik Ibsen in A Doll's House, decides to confront her own creator and to debate with him his words and actions. In doing so, she becomes the author of her own identity, whilst making the playwright into a character.
The Gift(2015)
Márgara is a woman with the gift of prophecy... but people do not believe her, even though she predicts hope for the world. Will humanity be able to hear her?
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