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ALFONSO SASTRE (1926 - ) |
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Nationality: Spanish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Was born in Madrid in 1926. He studied Filosofia y Letras [Philosophy and Letters]in the Universidad Central de Madrid, and then received a degree with a specialism in Pure Philosophy from the Universidad de Murcia in 1953. He is a founding member of the avant garde theatre group Arte Nuevo (1946), and Teatro de Agitación Politica (1950) and the Grupo de Teatro Realista (1961). He has written the following theatrical texts: Comedia onambula [Sleepwalker's Comedy] (1945), Uranio 235 [Uranus 235] (1946), Cargamento de suenos [Cargo of Dreams] (1946), Prólogo patetico [Pathetic Prologue] (1950), El cubo de la basura [The Garbage Pail] (1951), Escuadra hacia la muerte [The Condemned Squad] (1952), El pan de todos [Every Man's Bread] (1953), La mordaza [The Gag] (1954), Tierra roja [Red Earth] (1954), Ana Kleiber (1955), La sangre de Dios [The Blood of God] (1955), Muerte en el barrio [Death in the Neighbourhood] (1955), Guillermo Tell tiene los ojos tristes [Sad Are the Eyes of William Tell](1955), El cuervo [The Raven] (1956), Medea (1958), Asalto nocturno [Nocturnal Assault] (1959), En la red [In the Net] (1959), La cornada [Death Thrust] (1959),Oficio de tinieblas [Office of Darkness] (1962), El circulito de tiza o Historia de una muneca abandonada [The Abandoned Doll] (1962), M. S. V. o La sangre y la ceniza [The Blood and Ashes] (1965), El banquete [The Banquet] (1965), La taberna fantastica [The Fantastic Tavern] (1966), Crónicas romanas [Roman Chronicles] (1968), Melodrama (1969), Ejercicios de terror [Exercises of Terror](1970), Las cintas magneticas [Magnetic Tapes] (1971), Askatasuna [Freedom] (original title is in Basque) (1971), El camarada oscuro [The Dark Comrade] (1972),Ahola no es de leil [Light now is not raughing mattel] (1975), La gitana Celestina[The Gypsy Celestina] (1978), Analisis de un comando [Analysis of a Command](1978), Las guitarras de la vieja Izaskun [The Guitars of Old Izaskun] (1979), El hijo único de Guillermo Tell [Young Billy Tell] (1980), Aventura en Euskadi[Adventure in Euskadi] (1982), Los hombres y sus sombras [Men and Their Shadows] (1983), Jenofa Juncal [The Red Gypsy] (1983), El viaje infinito de Sancho Panza [The Infinite Journey of Sancho Panza] (1984), Cuento de la reforma [Tale of the Reform] (1984), Los últimos dias de Emmanuel Kant [The Last Days of Inmanuel Kant] (1985), La columna infame [The Infamous Column](1986), Revelaciones inesperadas sobre Moises [Unexpected Revelations About Moses] (1988), Demasiado tarde para Filoctetes [Too Late for Philotectes] (1989),¿Dónde estas, Ulalume, dónde estas? [Where are you, Ulalume? Where are you?](1990), Teoria de las catastrofes [Theory of Catastrophies] (1993), Lluvia de angeles sobre Paris [Raining Angels Over Paris] (1994), Los dioses y los cuernos[Gods and Infidelities] (1995), ¡Han matado a Prokopius! [They Have Killed Prokopius!] (1996), Crimen al otro lado del espejo [Crime on the Other Side of the Mirror] (1996), El asesinato de la luna llena [Murder of the Full Moon] (1996),Alfonso Sastre se suicida (Epilogo) [Alfonso Sastre Takes His Own Life (Epilogue)](1997). Sastre has adapted The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen; Creditors by August Strindberg; Mulatto by Langston Hughes; Huis clos, The Respectful Prostitute, The Victors, The Flies, The Trojan Women and The Condemned of Altona by Jean-Paul Sartre and Red Roses for Me by Sean O'Casey. His most recent narrative publications are Necrópolis (1994) and Historias de California [Stories of California] (1995) and the poetry volumes Vida del hombre invisible contada por el mismo [Life of the Invisible Man Recounted by Himself](1995), El evangelio de Dracula [The Gospel of Dracula] (1997) and Obra lirica y domestica. Poemas completos [Lyric and Domestic Writings. The Complete Poems](2005). As an essayist, he has published Drama y sociedad [Drama and Society], Anatomia del realismo [Anatomy of Realism], La revolución y la critica de la cultura[Revolution and Critique of Culture], Critica de la imaginación [Critique of Imagination], Prolegómenos a un teatro del porvenir [Prolegomenae to a Theatre of the Future], ¿Dónde estoy yo? [Where am I?], El drama y sus lenguajes [Drama and Its Languages], Ensayo general sobre lo cómico [General Essay on the Comic], La batalla de los intelectuales [Battle of the Intellectuals], Manifiesto contra el pensamiento debil [Manifesto Against Laxness of Thought], Limbos o los titulos de la Nada [Limbos or the Titles of Nothing] and Las dialecticas de lo imaginario[The Dialectics of the Imaginary]. His life and works have been compiled in Alfonso Sastre o la ilusión tragica[Alfonso Sastre or the Illusion of Tragedy] (1997). An edition of his complete works is in preparation and will be published by Hiru Argitaletxea. He has received the following awards: Viareggio Prize, Italy, 1976; Resena Prize,1977; Nacional de Teatro Prize, 1985; El Espectador y la Critica Prize, 1985; Ciudad de Segovia Prize, 1989; Euskadi de Literatura Prize, 1991; Txema Zubia Prize, 1993; Nacional de Literatura Prize, 1993; Feronia Città di Fiano Prize, Rome, 1996; Max de Honor Prize, sgae, 2003 and Quijote Prize, Asociación Colegial de Escritores, Madrid, 2005.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Alfonso Sastre
Abandoned Doll, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "abandoned Doll and Young Billy Tell" published by estrano, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77336 | |||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfonso Sastre | |||||
Synopsis: | a balloon seller tells a group of bored city children a story. | |||||
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Where are you, Ulalume? Where are you? | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #96797 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling from 17m 7w | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfonso Sastre | |||||
Synopsis: | Edgar Allen Poe journeys to Fordham to collect his belongings before returning to Richmond, Virginia, where his first love, recently rediscovered, and the promise of a new life, free from alcohol, awaits him. After making a scheduled stop in Baltimore to take a train to New York, he disappears and then reappears two days later in hospital, delirious, and dying. What happened in those two days? In this play of great tenderness, humour and humanity, one of Spains greatest living dramatists explores Poes final odyssey through the city . . . | |||||
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Young Billy Tell | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "abandoned Doll and Young Billy Tell" published by estrano, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77337 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfonso Sastre | |||||
Synopsis: | William Tell is a tyrant within his own family and his son grows up in a repressive atmosphere culminating with having an apple placed on his head. | |||||
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