playwrights Juan Carlos Mestre Gonzalez (Elda, 1974) and Celia Moran (Toledo, 1990) won. XVI Leopoldo Unfortunately Mínguez International Competition (LAM 2022 Prize). this SGAE Foundation and Visible Culture Association It organizes this award every year to support and encourage the creation of new theatrical texts that give film visibility. LGTBIQA+ batch. Won awards with authors Vagrants and scammersA text revealing the secret history of homosexuals suppressed during the Franco dictatorship.
“The game was well received, but the cast of five elderly people and a deaf teenager makes it difficult to assemble,” Mestre explains. “Winning the LAM Award gave us a lot of excitement, as it can help some production companies decide to assemble it, and on the other hand, it confirms that our work has paid off. It’s a very good feeling.”
presided over Paul Hairstyle (President of Visible Culture Association), XVI LAM Award jury consists of playwrights Avelina Hernández Martín and Aitziber Garmendia, Along with the winners of the 2019 edition; Mark Gisbertand 2021, Xavier of God.
their authors Vagrants and scammers will be distributed 4,000 euros what the award is given. In addition, the work will be published by the SGAE Foundation and will be included in the journal. SGAE Dramatized Readings Cycle next year. This piece total 33 texts presented nine of them participated in the competition, which reached the final stage.
In Hairstyle’s words, Vagrants and scammers this “theater of flesh and bloodin the form of ill-treated lives destroyed by a political regime that sees society as a homogeneous whole with only heterosexual relationships and cis people.
Mestre: ““A story about Spain in recent times that few people know, and it gives you goosebumps”
The jury wanted to recognize this work for “preference”. a non-commercial theme, Like that of older people, and it also does this through the recognition of historical memory, the memory of those suppressed by Francoism for having sexuality deviated from what the regime and the church saw acceptable.
A handwritten work
Juan Carlos Mestre and Celia Morán met when they coincided as actors in several productions. Later, after attending a play at the Teatro Valle-Inclán in Madrid, which Morán attended, she met the Alicante native activist and director. Hernando GomezMaking a documentary about homeless gay seniors.
“Everything he told me surprised me and also discovered that there are shelters for such people in the neighborhood of Lavapiés where I live. It had a huge impact on me and I started researching: books, documentaries or especially comics. violet of the Juan Sepulveda Sanchis Y Antonio Santos MerceroIt is a must-read book in schools,” he explains.
By then, Mestre and Morán had proposed to write a text together, and although they were considering a few ideas, there was no doubt when this topic came up: recent spanish history, but few people know about it, and it gives you goosebumps. It’s the story of people with names and surnames who are still alive.” The result was so satisfying that both playwrights are already planning new joint projects. “Vagrants and scammers It looks like it was written by two hands, not four, as our styles combined. The process was very fluid,” they add.