José M. Rodríguez Méndez:  AUTUMN FLOWER (Flor de otoño).
    Translated by Marion Peter Holt.  2001.

Drama in 2 acts.  Lluiset, a young attorney in the politically volatile Barcelona of 1930, leads a double life.  Unknown to his upper class family, he is a popular gay transvestite cabaret performer by night and known as "Autumn Flower."  Lluiset becomes involved with an anarchist group, is arrested, and condemned to death.  In a powerful final scene, Lluiset pretends with his mother that he is boarding a ship for America but in reality he is being led to his execution.
 

• One set for multiple scenes which can be achieved with lighting, quick shifts of basic elements, and possibly projections or film.

  3 principal roles (2 men, 1 woman), with 8 to 10 actors, both men and women, playing multiple roles.

  World premiere:  Dir. Antonio Diaz Zamora, Teatro Principal, Valencia, 1982.

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Autumn Flower. Original production, Teatro Español, Madrid, 1982. Directed by Antonio Díaz Zamora. Photo by Manuel Martínez Muñoz.