{"product_id":"9781780019512","title":"Night of the Assassins (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree siblings plot to kill their parents in this controversial masterpiece. In the game-playing scenarios the siblings invent, they play the parts of the parents, policemen and judges. This play provides a dramatic allegory of the political situation in Cuba in the 1960s, with its call to revolution echoed in the children's need to overcome their fear and turn convention upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaken from the collection, \u003cem\u003eLatin American Plays\u003c\/em\u003e, an essential introduction to the fascinating but largely unexplored theatre of Latin America, \u003cem\u003eNight of the Assassins\u003c\/em\u003e by José Triana is both controversial and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe full collection features new translations of five contemporary plays written by some of the region's most exciting writers. Each play is accompanied by an illuminating interview with its author conducted by the theatre director, Sebastian Doggart, who has also selected and translated the plays and provided an introductory history of Latin American drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRappaccini's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e by Octavio Paz\u003cbr\u003eA play by the Mexican Nobel laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaying Yes\u003c\/em\u003e by Griselda Gambaro\u003cbr\u003eA grotesque comedy from Argentina about man's inhumanity to man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrchids in the Moonlight\u003c\/em\u003e by Carlos Fuentes\u003cbr\u003eA dream play about two Mexican women exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMistress of Desires\u003c\/em\u003e by Mario Vargas Llosa\u003cbr\u003ePeru's most acclaimed writer interweaves reality and fantasy in an erotically charged tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131240694000,"sku":"9781780019512","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780019512_p0.jpg?v=1769890684","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780019512","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}