1995 We're Here… How About You? 1996

5th

Season


Checkmate


by Peyrou & Santillan (Spain)
Directed by Mario Marcel

About the play

An energizing farce in which the King needs POWER to stay in POWER, knowing that he is POWERLESS and able to lose POWER… A revealing farce that bares all – truth, lies, compatibility, love – but leaves room for laughter and for you. A farce that has the King confront the Pawn, the Bishop cover the Castle and you, very slyly, CHECKMATE the Queen.

About the authors

Alberto Peyrou and Diego Santillán were born in Spain during the first part of this century. One from Spain’s Northwest coast and the other from the Spain’s East Coast, the met in the middle (Madrid) and from there went on to Latin America, specifically Buenos Aires. Often teaming up to write together, their names have become almost a one-unit slogan, like those of Rogers and Hammerstein, Rogers and Astaire…. Ate they wrote, their passion for the theater evolved. Although they explored all literary forms, they always had their thoughts and words “on stage”.

During the decade of the 60s, the authors were seen as a mirror of “social-political, social-economic, and political-economic” happenings in many kingdoms that were disguised as “republics” or called “countries”. It’s truly important to preserve this work as a classic example of theatrical skills with language, staging, and the deft display of the brilliance of the Face genre. With sets and clever play-on-words, the play constructs a believable, at the same time incredible, world of humanity.

Today, Jaque a la Reina (Checkmate) is as timely as it was years ago during its first staging. Its great human impact keeps it on the front line as a contemporary Farce.

Cast
Azor, Primer Ministro...………………… Mario Marcel
Chambelain......…………………………… Jose Marinay
Gaspar........………………………………… Javier Terán
Rebeco........………………………………… Leo Redín
Reina.........………………………………….. Muriel Alfonseca
Criado.........…………………………………. Oscar García
Pajecillo........……………………………….. Marcela Marcel


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