The play was first performed on stage in 1985, and was part of La Movida, a drug-fueled youth movement that emerged in the Spanish capital Madrid, and to a lesser degree in other urban centers
during the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, part of the explosion of arts and lifestyles that followed the death of dictator Franco in 1975. The play depicts the modes and mores of Spain’s
new democratic youth culture in a combination of high and low art. A commercial and critical success, it was made into a movie in 1989. The English translation is of a 2008 revision for a
25th-anniversary revival, and faces pages of the Spanish. Wheeler also includes an unpublished interview he conducted with Alonso de Santos in 2011. Distributed in North America by Casemate
Academic, formerly the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
