Black Beach & Other Plays

Enigmatic and even elliptical, these three Catalan plays represent elements of a more ＂European,＂ less ＂UK＂ dramatic style, with echoes of early Pinter. ＂The Sale＂ is an apparently nonpolitical work concerned with three characters involved in the selling and buying of an apartment--solitary souls who are lost in the desert of the modern world, seeking an arm to cling on to so that they may be saved. A collision between the personal and the political, ＂The Party＂ presents a past affair that might just rekindle alongside present corruption. Can he persuade her not to cause trouble for the party leadership, or will she ignore the feelings she still has for him to bring the leadership down? ＂Black Beach＂ is more naturalistic, but even it does not fully reveal the politics of the party.

Jordi Coca is a leading figure in Catalan culture and literature, working in the fields of narrative fiction, drama, poetry, criticism and translation. Joan Casas has written plays, fiction, poetry and essays and has worked extensively as a translator into Catalan and Spanish. Joan currently teaches dramaturgy and theatre criticism. Lluisa Cunille is the cofounder of the Hungarian Theatre Company. She writes in Catalan and Spanish, and her work has been translated into French, Italian, and English.