Orchids in the Moonlight
- Full Length Play, Drama, Fantasy & Supernatural, 1980s
- 1M, 2F
- ISBN: 9781854592491
Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Fantasy & Supernatural
- Time Period: 1980s
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.
Carlos Fuentes' play Orchids in the Moonlight was written in 1982. This English translation by Sebastian Doggart was first staged by the Southern Development Trust in August 1992 in the Teatro Nacional, Havana, Cuba, and then had its British premiere at the Richard Demarco Gallery Theatre, Edinburgh in August 1992.
Orchids in the Moonlight is available in the collection Latin American Plays.
REVIEWS:
Carlos Fuentes' play Orchids in the Moonlight was written in 1982. This English translation by Sebastian Doggart was first staged by the Southern Development Trust in August 1992 in the Teatro Nacional, Havana, Cuba, and then had its British premiere at the Richard Demarco Gallery Theatre, Edinburgh in August 1992.
Orchids in the Moonlight is available in the collection Latin American Plays.
REVIEWS:
"Rich in language and movement, fantasy and reality, sensuality and cruelty; as iconoclastic as the magic realist boom of the 1960s."
Scotland on Sunday
Premiere Production:
This version: Teatro Nacional, Havana, Cuba & Richard Demarco Gallery Theatre, Edinburgh, 1992.
Characters
- Casting: 1M, 2F
- Casting Attributes: Room for Extras
