Orchids in the Moonlight

Cast: 2f 1m plus extras

Staging: Single interior set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook, 190 pages ISBN: 9781780019536Publication Date:
19 Oct 2017
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
First Staged:
This version: Teatro Nacional, Havana, Cuba & Richard Demarco Gallery Theatre, Edinburgh, 1992

Orchids in the Moonlight

By Carlos Fuentes Translated by Sebastian Doggart

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Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.

Carlos Fuentes' play Orchids in the Moonlight was written in 1982. This English translation by Sebastian Doggart was first staged by the Southern Development Trust in August 1992 in the Teatro Nacional, Havana, Cuba, and then had its British premiere at the Richard Demarco Gallery Theatre, Edinburgh in August 1992.

Orchids in the Moonlight is also available in the collection Latin American Plays.

Press Quotes

'Rich in language and movement, fantasy and reality, sensuality and cruelty; as iconoclastic as the magic realist boom of the 1960s'

Scotland on Sunday

Cast: 2f 1m plus extras

Staging:Single interior set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook,190 pages ISBN: 9781780019536Publication Date:
19 Oct 2017
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)

Also by Sebastian Doggart:

Rappaccini's Daughter
Latin American Plays
Mistress of Desires
Night of the Assassins
Saying Yes

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