Going Down to Morocco
Synopsis
Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s.Alonso de Santos' play, a commercial and critical success when first staged in 1985, was made into a film starring Antonio Banderas in 1989. Chusa, a free-spirited and spontaneously generous young drug smuggler introduces Elena, a middle-class runaway, to the apartment she shares with her cousin Pepito and her boyfriend Alberto, a rookie policeman. The result is chaos in their previously disorderly but happy life. The comedy explores opposing lifestyles of young people in 1980s Spain, during a period of radical social change. It is characterised by humour, creative use of contemporary slang, and intertextual film references.
Duncan Wheeler's translation of the original play marks with footnotes the changes made in the new version done in 2008 for a high-profile revival to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. This edition also includes an unpublished interview conducted by Duncan Wheeler with Alonso de Santos in 2010.
Book details
- Series:
- Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
- Author:
- Jose Luis de Santos
- ISBN:
- 9781800345102
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781908343277, 9781908343260
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- Pages:
- 120
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2024-01-03
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Copyright by:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Drama, Plays and Theater, Literature and Fiction