Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight : Three Plays from Spanish Theatre's Silver Age
Sierra, Maria Martinez; Nelson, Richard (EDT); Chambers, Colin (EDT); Barker, Harley Granville Granville (TRN); Barker, Helen Granville (TRN)
Language: English
Published by Methuen Drama, 2022
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- Title
- Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight : Three Plays from Spanish Theatre's Silver Age
- Author
- Sierra, Maria Martinez; Nelson, Richard (EDT); Chambers, Colin (EDT); Barker, Harley Granville Granville (TRN); Barker, Helen Granville (TRN)
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350300179
- ISBN 13
- 9781350300170
This edited collection features four plays by María Martínez Sierra, translated by Helen and Harley Granville Barker, along with an introduction by Patricia O’Connor, University of Cinicinnati, that examines María's extraordinary life and work and the battle for her authorship to be recognized in both the Spanish speaking and Anglophone world. Edited by playwright Richard Nelson and Professor Colin Chambers, this volume helps rectify this narrative by focusing on four plays, each centered on a strong female role, and each translated by the eminent man of theatre Harley Granville Barker and his wife, Helen, whose own story holds stark parallels in terms of authorship.
The plays include: Wife to a Famous Man (1924); The Kingdom of God (1928); The Romantic Young Lady (1920) and Take Two From One (1931). Between them, they enjoyed celebrated runs on Broadway and in London's West End in productions starring the most iconic female actors of their time, including Ethel Barrymore, Gertrude Lawrence and Peggy Ashcroft
Overall, the book recognizes María de la O Lejárraga García, to use her real name, as one of the most important female playwrights, not just in Spain, but globally, in the first half of the 20th century.
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About the Author
Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a subsidised national theatre, a cause he championed in his book A National Theatre: Scheme and Estimates. Waste was first presented by the Stage Society in 1907, before being revised and produced at the Westminster Theatre in 1936. Other plays include The Madras House, first produced at Duke of York's Theatre, 1910; The Secret Life; and His Majesty, which received its first production at the Edinburgh International Festival by Orange Tree Theatre Company in 1992.
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