Olé Libros presents its new Teatropo label with Joe O’Curneen’s work The Star of Hoffman (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 label of Olé Libros. The work The Star of Hoffman (The Abduction of Gloria Mae) is the best start for an editorial proposal that aims to address both theatre professionals and lovers of the genre.
Pedro Víllora writes, regarding the publication, an article on the website of the Diaro ABC. “An important author; – says Víllora – that is Joe O’Curneen: an author who does not let himself 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 theatre group of which O’Curneen is a founding member) and as complex as the creations of the great masters usually are.”
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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 pass the task becomes complicated and entangled in such a way that it is possible that she will never regain her 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.
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