Les Chiens Errants
(The Stray Dogs)
(3w)
Drama - 110 min
Characters
WOMAN 1 f. early 20s. The woman who is Salvador Dalí.
WOMAN 2 f. early 20s. The woman who is Luis Buñuel.
WOMAN 3 f. mid 20s. The woman who is Federico Garcia Lorca.
Synopsis
This play follows the creation and eventual dissolution of the friendship between Dalí, Buñuel, and Lorca beginning with their grad school days at the Residencia de Estudiantes in 1920's Madrid. Their shared love of art and literature gives way to rancor when sublimated sexual tensions rise to the surface. Sigmund Freud steps in to comment on the action, as do the ghosts of Oscar Wilde, Buñuel's father, and the Archbishop of Toledo. The poetry of Lorca is combine with the surrealist images of Dalí and Buñuel, and one character is turned into a teddy bear, creating an ever-shifting environment where the audience is never sure what will happen next.
Performance History
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2021 (Staged reading - Zoom)
