Novedades del último mes en eBooks de Teatro contemporáneo español del XIX al XXI

Es posible que el grotesco criollo sea tan nuestro e importante como el tango. Y tal vez por eso mismo, Armando Discépolo sea tan fundamental como su hermano Enrique, el poeta, el autor de Cambalache. Por entonces, en las primeras decadas del siglo XX, la Argentina estaba haciendose menos en los salones patricios que en las cocinas y fraguas de los inmigrantes y como muestra esta obra, de los criados, de los sirvientes.Babilonia podria ser una version cimarrona de un policial ingles de J.B. Priestley o una pelicula de Ken Loach, por que no, solo que bajo la Cruz del Sur y con esa lengua unica y multiple que todavia es vanguardia. Pero todo esto lo lee y lo escribe y lo explica mucho mejor el dramaturgo Mauricio Kartun en su prologo. Llega aqui uno de esos cruces milagrosos que la literatura gestiona en secreto, y que esta coleccion busca provocar y revelar. Discepolo se encuentra con Kartun, el autor de Terrenal. Pequeño misterio acrata, quien lo elige entre sus lecturas fundadoras.

Children arent silentChildren are fearlessSocial workers tell Jelicia that she is their success story. Frank is on his eighth foster home. At school no one knows Amber and Angelica are in care. To own their present and make a better future, these teenagers must first unearth their past.The Childrens Inquiry is a call to arms about the value of childhood and a musical that tells how love can be found in the most unexpected places. A revolutionary true story crafted from the voices of the children themselves by multi-award-winning LUNG, The Childrens Inquiry opened at Southwark Playhouse, London, in July 2024.

Something is shifting between you again.Something terrifyingand comforting.Dre and Des. Young. Gifted. Black. He stayed. She left.Years later, Des and Dre come crashing back into each others lives, carrying new secrets and old scars. With the clock counting down until Des has to leave again, memories of their past collide with their present and theyre forced to question if destiny has brought them back together for a reason.Benedict Lombes play Shifters is a fierce, funny and beautifully intoxicating celebration of the enduring power of memory and first love. It was performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Artistic Director Lynette Linton, before transferring to the Duke of Yorks Theatre in Londons West End.Benedict Lombes other plays include Lava, also for the Bush Theatre, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Playwriting.So good laugh-out-loud funny and tears-to-the-eyes moving... Lombes touching, emotionally intelligent and contemporary black British love story is itself easy to fall in love with - The TimesThe perfect bittersweet rom-com... a fresh and delightful romantic drama, beautifully written and acted - Evening Standard

Abigails mum is dead. But it turns out she cant afford her to be. Did you know how expensive it is to die? Its 4,000 for the funeral. Extra for flowers. And even more if you want sausage rolls. Otherwise, shell geta council funeral and an unmarked grave.In her work as a playwright, Abigail has been asked to write about something raw, from her unique working-class lens. Something that will make the audience feel gratifyingly bad about themselves. And so, to afford the funeral, she has to write about her mum.Kelly Joness My Mothers Funeral: The Show playfully tackles the inequalities we face around death, and the cost of turning your loved ones into art. It was co-produced by Paines Plough; Mercury Theatre, Colchester; Belgrade Theatre, Coventry; Landmark Theatres and Royal & Derngate, Northampton and premiered in 2024 at the Belgrade, before a UK tour including a run at Paines Ploughs Roundabout at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

What do you want me to say? That the worlds ending? Would that be helpful?The storms are getting worse, with rains so hard that fish are falling from the sky. But the age-old belief prevails: that the pealing of bells can dissipate the thunder and lightning.Its a perilous task one that now falls to two young friends, Clement and Aspinall. And as the weather worsens, they begin to question whether theyll make it through the night. With their faith in tradition faltering, they find the only thing they still believe in is each otherDaisy Halls play Bellringers is a comic and deeply moving drama about being young at the end of the world. It was first performed at the Roundabout during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, before transferring to Hampstead Theatre, London, co-produced by Atticist, Ellie Keel Productions and Hampstead Theatre, and directed by Jessica Lazar.Bellringers was a finalist for the Womens Prize for Playwriting 2023.

Hafsah and Bilal arent looking for love. Hafsah has her faith, her books, her dreams. Bilals just trying to get through uni. Studying in London, far from their hometowns of Bradford and Birmingham, they find common ground over a peanut butter and blueberry sandwich.But just as their connection is growing, the world around them becomes harder to ignore. As competing opportunities, obligations and injustices get in the way, will they be able to choose each other?Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khans play Peanut Butter & Blueberries is a tender and bittersweet love story that explores how to love when the weight of the world is on your shoulders. It was first performed at Kiln Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Sameena Hussain.

Its our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.Assata Shakur, a notorious Black Panther, is accused of murdering a state trooper in New Jersey in 1973. Ambrosia, a college student in 2014, is at the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri, finding herself swept up in the consequences of protesting.Two generations of women activists involved in the struggle for Black liberation in America.Against a stunning soundtrack of gospel and blues, Apphia Campbells Through the Mud explores what it takes to become a revolutionary. Originally performed in Edinburgh in 2017, with the title Woke, it won a Scotsman Fringe First, a Highly Commended Award from Amnesty International, and was shortlisted for the Filipa Bragança and Scottish Art Club Theatre Awards.This edition was published alongside the revival at Summerhall during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, co-produced by Stellar Quines and The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.Brave and remarkable a fierce seventy minutes of music and protest - The Scotsman

Cause when you win, we all win. So you have to keep "winning". Even if you feel like youre losing losing yourselfAde is a successful writer, or so it seems. She has everything she ever wanted: her career is flying, shes (kinda) moved out of her mums house, and her situationship isnt as complicated as she expected. Her life should be perfect! But things dont always go to plan, as Ade is about to find outfailure project is a warm and witty one-person play exploring grief, the strings attached to success, and what it means to fail.Written and performed by Yolanda Mercy, it premiered at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024, co-directed with Joseph Barnes-Phillips.

A young woman finds herself washed up back home on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney, trying to rebuild her life after a decade of addiction.The life she has left behind in London, with all its intoxicating temptations, has pushed her to the point of destruction. Now there is wildness of a different form an alluring wilderness that she must learn to navigate.Speaking to the impact of isolation and loneliness and ultimately the resilience of people, Amy Liptrots bestselling memoir The Outrun has been adapted for the stage by Stef Smith. Directed by Vicky Featherstone, and co-produced by The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and Edinburgh International Festival, it premiered at the 2024 Festival.Amy Liptrots The Outrun was a Sunday Times bestseller, BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, won the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome and Ondaatje Prizes.One of Scotlands boldest chroniclers of contemporary womens lives The Stage on Stef SmithA lyrical, brave memoir compelling Guardian on The Outrun

One day a family burned inside a house behind me and then I ate a chimichanga.Stacey Gross is a California weather girl. An underpaid harbinger of our coming extinction.But today, her regular routine of wildfires, Prosecco and teeth whitening descends into a scorched earth catastrophe, before she discovers something that will save us all.A dizzying rampage into the warped soul of America, Weather Girl is a blistering dark comedy about wrecking the places we love. It was first performed by Julia McDermott at Summerhall during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, directed by Tyne Rafaeli and produced by Francesca Moody Productions.