Lorca Plays: v.3: 'The Public', 'Play without a Title', 'Mariana Pineda'

Lorca Plays: v.3: 'The Public', 'Play without a Title', 'Mariana Pineda'

Lorca Plays: v.3: 'The Public', 'Play without a Title', 'Mariana Pineda'

Gwynne Edwards, Henry Livings, Federico Garcia Lorca

Lorca Plays: v.3: 'The Public', 'Play without a Title', 'Mariana Pineda'

Lorca Plays: v.3: 'The Public', 'Play without a Title', 'Mariana Pineda'

Gwynne Edwards, Henry Livings, Federico Garcia Lorca

Overview

"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer Mariana Pineda achieved immediate critical success on its first performance in Barcelona in 1927. The Public is a powerful and uncompromising demand for sexual, and specifically homosexual, freedom - as predicted it was never performed in Lorca's time - it was first performed in this country by Theatre Royal Stratford East in the 80s. Play Without a Title, an unfinished Lorca rarity, realises his wish 'to do something different, including modern plays on the age we live in'.

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Henry Livings

Henry Livings
Henry Livings was an English playwright and screenwriter who worked extensively in British television and theatre from the 1960s to the 1990s. Livings trained as an actor at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, which he joined in 1956. Livings appeared in the first of the Carr ...
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