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| Maruxa Vilalta Volumen 197, Gale Group Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2002 |
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| 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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