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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: Peruvian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
With novels including The War of the End of the World, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto and The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors. He was born in Peru in 1936 and educated at university in Lima, where he studied Humanities and Law. Later, a scholarship took him to Madrid and, having gained his PhD, he moved to Paris not knowing that he would live and work in Europe for the next eighteen years. He returned to Lima in 1974, although he makes regular trips to Europe. Always politically outspoken, from 1976 to 1979 Llosa served as President of PEN. His deep commitment to free expression is frequently reflected in the politically charged nature of his books, which have aroused the anger of the right and the left wing alike. A man of diverse interests, he is a playwright and his critical studies of Garcia Marquez, Flaubert, Sartre and Camus are internationally respected. He has also produced and hosted 'The Tower of Babel', the Peruvian television show that looks at every aspect of Latin American culture from Borges to boxing. A football fanatic, he covered the 1982 World Cup for Peru. In 1983 he presided over the commission which investigated the deaths of eight journalists, killed in Ayacucho during the Belaunde Government's campaign against the Maoist guerrila movement, the Sendero Luminoso. Having once declined the Prime Ministership of Peru in 1984, he was a candidate in the 1990 Presidential elections. Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award in March 1985 for The War of the End of the World and the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in 1986.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Mario Vargas Llosa
Chunga, La | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Organisations: | Lyric Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18278 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
Synopsis: | A loud-mouthed stud, and his beautiful, trusting girlfriend enter a sleazy bar on their way to the local cinema. The inscrutable Chunga serves their drinks, takes their money, says little but watches everything. Josefino is quickly caught up in a card game that spins out of control, and after a night of drunken brawling, during which he ransoms his girl to the proprietress for gambling money, she is never seen again. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chunga, La | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21088 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Peru in the Fifties, this masterful tale of fantasy and delusion finds self-styled 'Superstuds' whiling away the hours over endless drinking and games of dice in the infamous 'Chunga's Bar'. The arrival of the beautiful Meche exposes their innermost desires and dreams until even the impervious bar owner, La Chunga herself, falls under the enigmatic beauty's spell... | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Divine Words | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC 3 | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76330 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kathie And The Hippopotamus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21089 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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La Chunga | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Red Lion Theatre, 418 St John Street, London EC1V 4NJ >>> | 1988 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | # | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Peru in the Fifties. Self-styled 'Superstuds' are whiling away the hours over endless drinking and games of dice in the infamous 'Chunga's Bar'. The arrival of the beautiful Meche exposes their innermost desires and dreams until even the impervious bar owner, La Chunga herself, falls under the enigmatic beauty's spell. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 1528 - [Theatre: Old Red Lion] | |||||
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Madman Of The Balconies, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76329 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Madman of the Balconies, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21090 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mistress Of Desires | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Latin American Plays, Nick Hern Books, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854592491 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9769 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pretty Eyes, Ugly Paintings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Courtyard, N1, London | 1996 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21091 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Young Lady from Tacna, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatro Technis, London | 1992 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21092 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mario Vargas Llosa | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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