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Going Down to Morocco (Paperback)
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Going Down to Morocco (Paperback)
Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
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Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most
emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain.
It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled
youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map
in the early 1980s. Alonso de Santos' play, a commercial and
critical success when first staged in 1985, was made into a film
starring Antonio Banderas in 1989. Chusa, a free-spirited and
spontaneously generous young drug smuggler introduces Elena, a
middle-class runaway, to the apartment she shares with her cousin
Jaimito and her boyfriend Alberto, a rookie policeman. The result
is chaos in their previously disorderly but happy life. The comedy
explores opposing lifestyles of young people in 1980s Spain, during
a period of radical social change. It is characterised by humour,
creative use of contemporary slang, and intertextual film
references. Duncan Wheeler's translation of the original play marks
with footnotes the changes made in the new version done in 2008 for
a high-profile revival to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary.
This edition also includes an unpublished interview conducted by
Duncan Wheeler with Alonso de Santos in 2010.
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