{"product_id":"selected-plays-by-griselda-gambaro-griselda-gambaro-9781350233645","title":"Selected Plays by Griselda Gambaro: Siamese Twins; Mother by Trade; As the Dream Dictates; Asking Too Much; Persistence; Dear Ibsen, I Am Nora; The Gi","description":"Griselda Gambaro is arguably Argentina's foremost dramatist and playwright, whose poetics not only interpret Argentine reality but transcend cultural and geographical borders. Popular across Latin America and Europe, her plays lack recognition in the UK due to the lack of English translations - a problem that this welcome anthology solves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, Gambaro has produced work from the 1960s through to the 1990s, which this collection chronicles. As radical and endlessly playful as they are inventive, Gambaro's plays make searing comments on domestic and political issues: an experience which may not be comfortable but is always vital. Dazzling, original, incisive and poetic; no one made theatre like Griselda Gambaro.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSiamese Twins\u003c\/i\u003e (1967)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this absurd and forceful play, two brothers (one weak, one strong) play out a primal scene of envy, cruelty and torture as one exerts his power and aggression over the other. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother by Trade\u003c\/i\u003e(1997)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A mother meets her daughter forty years after she abandoned her as an infant; the daughter, in turn, discovers the mother cohabiting with her lesbian partner of twenty-five years. Melodrama ensues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs the Dream Dictates\u003c\/i\u003e (1999)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How can we look to the future if there is great trauma in our past? In this play, only the untethered thinking that comes with dreaming can deliver that immense freedom. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsking Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e (2001)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this deeply poetic play, love is just a memory... and with all the messiness, the hiatuses, contradictions and traps which memory brings, can love exist at all?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersistence\u003c\/i\u003e(2004)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on the 2004 Beslan massacre in Russia, three Chechnyan rebels take children hostage, tackling the difficult contradictions found in Islamic Terrorism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Ibsen, I Am Nora\u003c\/i\u003e (2012)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nora, the character created by Henrik Ibsen in \u003ci\u003eA Doll's House\u003c\/i\u003e, decides to confront her own creator and to debate with him his words and actions. In doing so, she becomes the author of her own identity, whilst making the playwright into a character.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e(2015)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e M疵gara is a woman with the gift of prophecy... but people do not believe her, even though she predicts hope for the world. Will humanity be able to hear her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Griselda Gambaro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350233641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350233645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Griselda Gambaro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075588649215,"sku":"9781350233645","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66d1afc2-bb1e-498e-81c3-d18e8aef1a7f.jpg?v=1685460315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selected-plays-by-griselda-gambaro-griselda-gambaro-9781350233645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}