{"product_id":"9781780019536","title":"Orchids in the Moonlight (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dream play about two Mexican women exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play relentlessly stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.\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\u003eOrchids in the Moonlight \u003c\/em\u003e by Carlos Fuentes is 'rich in language and movement, fantasy and reality, sensuality and cruelty; as iconoclastic as the magic realist boom of the 1960s' (\u003cem\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e).\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\u003eNight of the Assassins\u003c\/em\u003e by José Triana\u003cbr\u003eA controversial Cuban play in which three siblings plot the murder of their parents.\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\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":47131240726768,"sku":"9781780019536","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780019536_p0.jpg?v=1763711582","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780019536","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}