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Great Galeoto

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre

Length
2 h 59 min
Chapters
3
Language
English
Genre
Drama
First published
1895

"What touches us more closely is Echegaray's manipulation of the modern conscience, and its illimitable scope for reflection, for conflict, and the many-sided drama of temptation.... Not even Tolstoi, with all that delicacy and keenness of the Russian conscience, that profound seriousness, which moves us so variously in his great books, has a nobler consciousness of the dignity of suffering and virtue than this Spanish dramatist. And not less capable is he of a jesting survey of life." Echegaray won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1904. This play was made into movies several times in both its original Spanish and in English. - Summary by The Translator

Cast list:

Teodora, Wife of Don Julian: Nissy

Don Julian: Greg Giordano

Dona Mercedes, Wife of Don Severo: Sonia

Don Severo: Alan Mapstone

Pepito, Their Son: Adrian Stephens

Ernest: ToddHW

Rueda, A Witness: Sandra Schmit

Servant at Don Julian's: Andrew Kennedy

Ernest's Servant: Joanna Michal Hoyt

Stage Directions: Availle

Editing: ToddHW

Chapters

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