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Emma (2008), Maxi Rodríguez
- Scene
The play has 12 scenes with the following titles:
1. Damned Poetry
2. A Deliberate Death?
3. She Was Already What She Would Become
4. The Secret
5. …and a Plan
6. The Night Before
7. Saturday, Daytime
8. Milonga
9. Outside of Time
10. Killing
11. I’ve Avenged My Father
12. The Lesson
- Staging
Emma is a play set in the past and the present. It makes symbolic use of lighting and tango music to convey the temporal shifts between past and present. For the music, the playwright suggests something similar to the tango-inspired music of the Gotan Project.
The play begins in a study/library, filled with books and containing a desk at which the Man initially sits writing. In scene 11 the Man becomes Aaron Loewenthal. His appearance becomes that of an old man.
At times the characters interact using tango-like dance moves.
The play is filled with evocative sounds, such as the monotonous noise of the mechanical loom in the factory where the young Emma works, and the steady drip-drop of water in Emma’s home.
- Music
Tango music is played at various points.
- Cast number
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Minimum Maximum 1 male 1 male 1 female 1 female 2 (total) 2 (total) - Characters
- EMMA
- MAN
Entry written by Gwynneth Dowling. Last updated on 21 February 2011.
