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Antonio Alamo

ANTONIO ALAMO   (1964 - )

Nationality:   Spanish    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  n/a

Born in Cordoba in 1964. He graduated in law from the Universidad de Sevilla in 1988. It can be said that his drama education was essentially a practical one: first as a co-director and playwright in the El Traje de Artaud company, then working as an assistant director and playwright with some directors such as Alfonso Zurro, Jesús Cracio and many others. In 1995, he set up a drama course at the Royal Court Theatre of London. During the academic year 1998-99 he lived in Rome, at the Academia de Espana, where he wrote the novel Nata soy.

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Antonio Alamo

ANTONIO ALAMO  

Cardenio

1st Produced:

Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Swan Theatre, England, EUR >>>

14 Apr 2011

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1848421806

Music:

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Genre:

Shakespeare's lost play re-imagined

Parts:

Male

11

Female

6

Parts other:

-

Notes:

By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran and Antonio Alamo

Cardenio

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit. A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena. The history of the play is every bit as thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary archaeology by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, to re-imagine a previously lost play by Shakespeare. Based on an episode in Cervantes' Don Quixote, the play known as Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612. A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that Double Falshood by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it. Since Theobald's play misses out some crucial scenes in the plot, Doran has turned to the Cervantes original to supply the missing episodes, using the original English translation by Thomas Shelton (1612) that Fletcher and Shakespeare must themselves have read.

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Drunkards, The

1st Produced:

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Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

http://www.caoseditorial.com/libros/ficha.asp?lg=en&id=34,

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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#57503

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

9

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Antonio Alamo

Synopsis:

The La Fonda Hotel of Santa Fe, capital of New Mexico is the setting of the macabre dinner that took place on August 6, 1945 to celebrate the drop of the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The dinner was attended by J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the city-lab of Los alamos, and other seven scientists of international renown, who, together with him and many others, were in charge of the projects technical aspects. The alcohol, undisputed protagonist of the nonsensical banquet, intoxicates the minds of the distinguished guests and, by temporarily freeing their consciences from the delusion of omnipotence in which they are caught, makes weakness, oddity and humanity come into the open. The increased awareness of the real and catastrophic effects of the invention, the doubts, remorse and dissociation from the official power grow hand in hand with the ethylic fog enfolding the scene, to result in a desperate and hallucinated spiral that belongs to metahistory.

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