Gloria Montero's award-winning'Frida K.--A Dialogue for a Single Actress'takes place on the day of Frida's first and only solo exhibition in her native Mexico. As Frida, devastated by poor health, prepares not only for her exhibition but for her approaching death she rages about what her life has been in an ongoing dialogue with Death itself. Her tormented marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, his many infidelities, her own affairs with Trotsky and others, are all told against a background of the fashionable art scenes of Paris and New York, the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. In...

La premiada FRIDA K. de Gloria Montero tiene lugar el dia de la primera y unica exposicion individual de Frida en su Mexico natal. Mientras Frida, devastada por la mala salud, prepara no solo para su exposicion sino para su propio fin, protesta contra lo que ha sido su vida en un apasionado dialogo con la Muerte misma. Su matrimonio atormentado con el muralista Diego Rivera, las continuas infidelidades de el y sus propias aventuras con Trotsky y otros, se cuentan en el contexto del ambiente artistico de Paris y Nueva York, la Revolucion Mexicana y la Guerra Civil espanola. En este despiadado...

Set in a small town in tropical Australia and narrated by the child Rora, the seven stories of 'All Those Wars' evoke new and surprising facets of dramatic events from the first half of the Twentieth Century-the two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War. Rora's stories throw into bold relief an assortment of displaced characters: the rueful veteran of Gallipoli; the flamboyant Elvala and Nando, come from Italy to build a new life; the Polish count who studied piano with Paderewski; the wise circus dwarfs; Jimmy, the aborigine yardman at the Convent; the Irish and Italian families who own the...