Maruxa Vilalta
Contemporary Authors
Maruxa Vilalta
Volumen 197, Gale Group Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2002
Her plays have been published in English, French, Catal�n, Italian and  Czech, and performed in several countries.
Los Desorientados, an adaptation of her novel, offers a poetic-realistic treatment to young people problems and loneliness.
Un pa�s feliz centers on the problem of Spain and Spanish people under the dictatorship of  general Franco.
Soliloquio del Tiempo is a monologue by  Time as a theatre character, in the universe. Un d�a loco is a monologue by a women that tryes to escape from daily reality.
La �ltima letra focuses a writer and his persistent vocation.
El 9 presents a worker in a factory; he is no more a man but a number.
Cuesti�n de narices is a protest againts war.
Esta noche juntos, am�ndonos tanto is a story of selfishness and hate; therefore it tryes to exalt love.
Nada como el piso 16 criticizes bourgeois life and its  ideals; a man renounces to love and looses his identity.
Historia de �l is a critic of a rising dictator and of the government that  supports him.  Una mujer, dos hombres y un balazo is a parody that includes a melodrama, an absurdist play, a surrealistic one and a musical comedy.
Peque�a historia de horror (y de amor desenfrenado) is a distortion of soap opera and murder stories.
Una voz en el desierto. Vida de San Jer�nimo is about the monk that did not want to be a pope and worked during 38 years in a Bethlehem cell, translating the books of the Old and New Testaments. We see the falling of Roman Empire as well as Jerome between young students, now a days.
Francisco de As�s and his generosity  place us before intolerancy and selfishness of today�s world.
Jesucristo entre nosotros, Jesus Christ between us, in a bureau, a hospital, a jail ; Jesus Christ with jeans, now. Ignacio y los jesuitas is about a journalist of our century that interviews  Ignatius of Loyola; the church inquired.  1910 is Mexican Revolution, the history at stage; before heros and traitors, the soldier killed at the battle.

Awards, Honors:
-- Alarc�n Prize to The Best Play of The Year,  Mexican Critics Association,  1970, for Esta noche juntos, am�ndonos tanto .
-- News Horizonts Literary Circle  Award, Managua, 1972.
-- Number Nine selected in The Best Short Plays 1973, by Stanley Richards, Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA.
-- Festival of Manresa Award, 1974, for Cuesti�n de Narices .
-- Alarcon Prize to The Best Play of the Year, Mexican Critics Association,  1975, for Nada como el piso 16 .
-- Theater Cr�tics and Chroniclers Association  Prize to The Best Play of the Year, 1975, for Nada como el piso 16 .
-- Alarc�n Price to The Best Play of the Year, Mexican Critics Association,  1978, for  Historia de �l .
-- El Figaro Prize to The Best Play of the Year, 1978,  for Historia de �l. 
-- Creative Investigation Prize to The Best Play of the Year, Mexican Critics Association , 1991, for  Una voz en el desierto. Vida de San Jer�nimo .
-- Theater Journalists Prize to The Best Play of the Year,  1991, for Una voz en el desierto. Vida de San Jer�nimo .
-- Creative Investigation Prize to The Best Play of the Year, Mexican Critics  Association, 1992, for Francisco de As�s.
-- Claridades Award, 1998, for �Distinguished contribution to Scenic Arts�.
-- Tennessee University and Theater Space 1900, Latin American Theatre Journeys dedicated in homage  to playwright Maruxa Vilalta, 2001, Puebla, M�xico.
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