Olé Libros presents its new imprint Teatropo, with Joe O’Curne’s work Hoffman’s Star (The Abduction of Gloria Mae).
A text that has us fascinated.
Joe O’Curneen, founding member of Yllana, is the author chosen to start the journey of Teatropo, the new publishing imprint of Olé Libros. The play Hoffman’s Star (The Abduction of Gloria Mae) is the best start for an editorial proposal that aims to address both theater professionals and lovers of the genre.
Pedro Víllora writes, regarding the publication, a review in Diario ABC. “An important author; – says Víllora – that is Joe O’Curneen: an author who does not allow himself to be carried away by immediacy, but transcends it” (…) “It is an unusual, profound work, as entertaining as the best of the many pieces by Yllana (the famous theater group of which O’Curneen is a founding partner) and as complex as the creations of the great masters usually are.”
Synopsis:
At thirteen years old, Gloria Mae was kidnapped. After years locked in a basement, the day of her release has finally arrived. The rescue, a priori, is relatively simple; However, as the minutes go by the task becomes complicated and tangled in such a way that it is possible that he will never regain his freedom.
Gloria appears fragile, but she is strong, brave and extraordinarily imaginative, so much so that she leaves everyone baffled when they discover how she has managed to survive her captivity, abuse, violence and extreme loneliness.
