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Juan Mayorga Ruano

Personal information
Surname: Mayorga Ruano
First name: Juan
Middle names: Antonio
Commonly known as: Juan Mayorga
Born: 6 May 1965, Madrid, Spain
Biography

Juan Mayorga (Madrid, 1965) is one of the most important Spanish playwrights of his generation. His first play, Siete hombres Buenos (Seven Good Men) was awarded second place in the Mar... (Read more...)

Themes

Through his theatre Juan Mayorga explores a wide-range of interconnected social, philosophical and artistic concerns. He focuses on the underbelly of life, referring to his theatre as a... (Read more...)

Style

Juan Mayorga pushes the boundaries of what theatre can do. Because of this, his plays differ in terms of style, length and how they manipulate the unities of time and space. What unites... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Useful reading and websites
  • J.V. 2004. Interview with Juan Mayorga, ‘Al público hay que desafiarlo’, El País (Babelia), 21 February (in Spanish)

  • Mayorga, Juan. 2008. ‘La representación teatral del Holocausto’, Revista CELCIT, 33, 55-59, http://www.celcit.org.ar/publicaciones/rtc_sum.php?cod=27 [accessed January 2010] (Online Publication) (in Spanish)

  • Perales, Liz. 2003. Interview with Mayorga, ‘Hay que provocar la desconfianza en el público’, El Cultural, 15 September, http://www.remiendoteatro.com/Notas/Juan%20Mayorga.htm [accessed January 2010] (Online Publication) (in Spanish)

Entry written by Gwynneth Dowling. Last updated on 22 May 2011.

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