THEATRE : Embassy of Colombia presents Gabriel Garcia Marquez ’s "Erendira And Her Heartless Grandmother" at Habitat World, IHC - 20th July 08

Audio interview of Play's Director Amal Allana who is also NSD Chairperson ( taken in March 2008 for previous staging ) :

Entry : Limited passes available at the Programme desk, India Habitat Centre from 10th July.

Event Details : On its National Day the Embassy of Colombia pays Gabriel Garcia Marquez, on the 25th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize, and 40th Anniversary of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude’, with a performance of his Innocent 'Erendira And Her Heartless Grandmother'.
About the Play : Innocent Erendira is the story of a young girl who inadvertently sets fire to the huge mansion belonging to her grandmother, a former prostitute. The grandmother, wishing to recover her loss begins to prostitute her granddaughter. The story takes on the characteristics of a bizarre fairy tale, with the evil grandmother forcing her Cinderella-like granddaughter to sell her body. They travel all over for several years, with men lining up for miles to enjoy her.
Meanwhile, Erendira falls in love with Ulysees. She decides she has had enough. After an aborted attempt to escape from her grandmother’s clutches with her lover, she suggests to Ulysees that he kill the grandmother. He tries to poison the grandmother with arsenic in a birthday cake, but she survives this and continues to dominate. Finally, Erendira’s lover stabs the grandmother to death. By the time he regains his composure, Erendira has fled.

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