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Hombres en escabeche (1999), Ana Istarú

Titles
English title: Select Man, Marinate Until Tender
Date written: 1999
First publication date: 2001
First production date: 2000
Keywords: family > brothers/sisters, family > marriage, family > patriarchy, family > adolescence, power > inter-personal/game play, love > relationships, women > marginalisation of, family > parents and children, women
Pitch

Dressed as a bride,  Alicia waits in a wedding gown for a suitable man to take the role of her husband.  In this comic odyssey, Alicia learns that she too must act the part of a social-sexual script that dictates the age-old impossibility of fulfilling both the role of ‘la Virgen’ y ‘la Chinga’, the Madonna and the whore. 

Synopsis

The Girl, Alicia, is played as a child, a teenager and an adult by one actress. The drama which unfolds charts her interactions with seven significant males in her life: her father; her... (Read more...)

Critical response

Hombres en escabeche received the Premio Hermanos Machado de Teatro in Seville, Spain, in 1999.

Editions
  • Istarú, Ana. 2001. Hombres en escabeche. Sevilla, Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, Area de Cultura y fiestas mayores / Colección Compás

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 16 May 2012.

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