Dos viejos pánicos (c.1967), Virgilio Piñera

Titles

English title: Two Old People in a Panic
Date written: c. 1967
First production date: 1990
Keywords: family > marriage, power > inter-personal/game play, art > theatre, madness, forgetting, Playing

Pitch

‘Two old people are terrified of death. To deal with their fear they play games all day long pretending to be dead.’

By Kate Eaton

Editions

Piñera, Virgilio. 2002. Teatro completo, ed. Rine Leal. La Habana, Cuba, Letras Cubanas

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 18 June 2012.