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The Granny and the Heist / La estanquera de Vallecas (Paperback)
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The Granny and the Heist / La estanquera de Vallecas (Paperback)
Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
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Part comedy, part thriller, part social critique, The Granny and
the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) is the play with which Jose
Luis Alonso de Santos reinvigorated the Spanish stage during a
period of uncertainty upon the death of Francisco Franco and the
end of theatre censorship. Premiered in 1981, it established Alonso
de Santos as the most important playwright in Spain at a time when
the country was emerging from decades of relative isolation from
the rest of Europe. Set in a working class area of Madrid, the play
tells the story of Leandro and Tocho, two out of work builders
whose plan to rob a tobacconists goes awry due to the refusal of
its owner, feisty grandmother Justa, to hand over the money.
Barricading themselves in the shop as the forces of order arrive,
the men take Justa and her granddaughter Angeles hostage. In the
stand-off that ensues, Alonso de Santos deftly interweaves tense
excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness, eliciting
our sympathy for the residents of the Vallecas neighbourhood,
equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as they had been under
the dictatorship. This edition features Stuart Green's facing page
translation, as well as a critical introduction that provides
readers with knowledge of the historical and cultural context in
which the play was written and performed. The edition also includes
an extensive collection of classroom activities especially designed
by Lucy Meyer and Stuart Green to enable secondary school and
university teachers to use the play, its translation and other
authentic materials to teach a variety of linguistic and
grammatical features of Spanish in all four skills areas in
language learning.
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