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Los Gatos: Gómez-Arcos's Spectacle Of Sacrifice, Sharon G. Feldman
Los Gatos: Gómez-Arcos's Spectacle Of Sacrifice, Sharon G. Feldman
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
Agustfn Gómez-Arcos's Los gatos is a powerful, chilling piece of theater, a sacrificial spectacle steeped in passion, violence, and death, which straddles the balustrade between the emotional intensity of a Lorcan tragedy and the grotesque hyperbolism and dark humor of Valle-lnclán's esperpentos. In 1965, a censored production of Los gatos, directed by Juan de Prat-Gay, premiered to a somewhat lukewarm reception at Madrid's Teatro Marquina. Then, in November 1992, nearly thirty years after its original première, director Carme Portaceli resuscitated and restaged this post-Civil-War allegory for a new generation of theatergoers. …