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GLORIA MONTERO
Nationality: Canadian, Spanish
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Literary Agent: Langtons International Agency
Novelist, playwright, poet GLORIA MONTERO grew up in a family of Spanish immigrants in Australia's North Queensland. After studies in theatre and music, she worked in radio and theatre, before moving to Canada where she continued her career as writer, broadcaster, TV interviewer, scriptwriter and producer of radio and film documentaries. She now lives in Barcelona where she continues to write and publish. Her plays have been translated and performed around the world.
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Baggage Frida K. --A Dialogue for a Single Actress. It Takes TwoBaggage
Synopsis:
BAGGAGE, a three-act play about the relationship between three aging sisters who come together for the first time in forty years when the middle sister, who has never married, is put into an old age home. The elder sister, now a well-known actress, was thrown out of the house years ago by their father when he learned she was pregnant. The youngest sister, now a widow, married her childhood sweetheart and lived an exemplary life in the town where they all grew up. As they deal with the deception and disappointments that have marked their very different lives and face their fear of death, we begin to understand how alike they are, each a reflection of the culture and values and the desperate drive to succeed inherited from their father, an immigrant Spanish worker.
Notes:
Critics invariably have commented that the play is remarkable in that it gives three mature actresses starring roles...
1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, Adelaide 2004
Organisations:
Thierry Dramatic Society Inc. for Adelaide Festival of the Arts
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Music:
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Genre:
drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: 1
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Top of PageFrida K. --A Dialogue for a Single Actress.
Synopsis:
Frida K. takes place on the day of Frida's first and only solo exhibition in her native Mexico. As Frida, devastated by poor health, prepares not only for her exhibition but for her approaching death, she rages about what her life has been in an ongoing dialogue with Death itself. Her tormented marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, his many infidelities, her own affairs with Trotsky and others, are all told against a background of the fashionable art scenes of Paris and New York, the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. In this ruthless encounter with her own end, Frida reveals how a life of crippling pain has been transformed into paintings of terrifying power.
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The award-winning Frida K. -A Dialogue for a Single Actress- written by Gloria Montero for her daughter actress Allegra Fulton, premiered in 1994. Nominated in Canada for the prestigious Chalmers Award, the production won two Dora awards. The National Arts Centre, Ottawa, mounted a new production in 2007 which then toured to the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton and was nominated for a Stirling Award, for the best production of the season. The Spanish production of Frida K. opened in Madrid's Festival de Otoño (1995), and was subsequently mounted at Barcelona's Teatre Artenbrut, moving later to the Sala Muntaner, winning a Crític's Prize. Since then the production has toured Spain and, chosen by the Ministry of Education and Culture, was presented at the Festival Internacional de Teatro, Havana, Cuba. Frida K. has been acclaimed by critics and public in Canada, New York, Mexico, Spain, Prague, Poland, Latvia and Sweden.
1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, Canada 1995
Organisations:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, Canada
1st Published:
Nuage Editions, 1997 0-921833-52-0
Music:
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Genre:
drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageIt Takes Two
Synopsis:
The play in three movements-each separated by a tango-involves two characters, although there is no connection between the SHE and HE of each movement. Movement One involves a married couple attempting to settle, after a number of years, an extra-maritial relationship which has never been dealt with. Movement Two is a telephone call between a mother and her estranged son who left home after a violent scene when he confessed he was gay. Movement Three shows an aged brother and sister who were separated as teenagers after their parents learned of the incestuous relationship between them. Life's most common metaphors give rise to the fears, hurts and attempts at self-protection that end up defining each one of us. The words we say like those we are not prepared to admit challenge each other in interminable battles. And no battle is fought alone. The complicity with the tango is inevitable. The melancholy passion of the tango's syncopated rhythm evokes the eternal battle to truly know each other. And it always takes two.
Notes:
It Takes Two was translated into Catalan and produced professionally in Barcelona as Cosa de Dos.
1st Produced:
Teatre de la Biblioteca Barcelona 2007
Organisations:
Assoc. D'Investigacio i Experimentacio Teatral (AIET)
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Music:
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Genre:
drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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