The Granny and the Heist / La estanquera de Vallecas (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics)

Part comedy, part thriller, part social critique, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) is the play with which José Luis Alonso de Santos reinvigorated the Spanish stage during a period of uncertainty upon the death of Francisco Franco and the end of theatre censorship. Premiered in 1981, it established Alonso de Santos as the most important playwright in Spain at a time when the country was emerging from decades of relative isolation from the rest of Europe.Set in a working class area of Madrid, the play tells the story of Leandro and Tocho, two out of work builders whose plan to rob a tobacconists goes awry due to the refusal of its owner, feisty grandmother Justa, to hand over the money. Barricading themselves in the shop as the forces of order arrive, the men take Justa and her granddaughter Ángeles hostage. In the stand-off that ensues, Alonso de Santos deftly interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness, eliciting our sympathy for the residents of the Vallecas neighbourhood, equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as they had been under the dictatorship.This edition features Stuart Green's facing page translation, as well as a critical introduction that provides readers with knowledge of the historical and cultural context in which the play was written and performed. The edition also includes an extensive collection of classroom activities especially designed by Lucy Meyer and Stuart Green to enable secondary school and university teachers to use the play, its translation and other authentic materials to teach a variety of linguistic and grammatical features of Spanish in all four skills areas in language learning.

Literature & Fiction

de Santos, José Luis Alonso

United States

Liverpool University Press

<p>Bajarse al moro, de José Luis Alonso de Santos (Valladolid, 1942), es la obra de teatro emblemática de los 80, los años de la “movida” madrileña; en ella se reflejan los conflictos de los jóvenes de aquella época y su manera de resolverlos a golpe de nuevas y arriesgadas experiencias vitales. Pero la pieza trasciende aquel presente para erigirse en un canto a la juventud y a ese momento eufórico de la vida en el que se toman decisiones sin ni siquiera intuir lo trascendentales que pueden resultar en la madurez.La obra es una de “Las 25 mejores obras del teatro español”, colección dirigida por el dramaturgo José Luis Alonso de Santos y editada por la Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid (RESAD) y la editorial Bolchiro. La colección presenta las obras anotadas y precedidas por estudios de investigadores del teatro, que prestan especial atención a su puesta en escena y analizan los estrenos más célebres, ayudados de ilustraciones y fotografías.La edición electrónica también incorpora archivos sonoros con fragmentos del texto dramatizados por actores.</p>

Bajarse al moro (Spanish Edition)

Dramas & Plays

Bolchiro

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