La Chunga
From: Tuesday, 24th January 2012
To: Sunday, 19 February 2012
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Synopsis
Set in Peru in the Fifties. Self-styled 'Superstuds' are whiling away the hours over endless drinking and games of dice in the infamous 'Chunga's Bar'. The arrival of the beautiful Meche exposes their innermost desires and dreams until even the impervious bar owner, La Chunga herself, falls under the enigmatic beauty's spell...
Our Review:
7 February 2012
What happened when Meche spent the night with Chunga?
That’s the question which obsesses every man in Chunga’s tiny bar in Peru, as we see each of their deep, often dark sexual fantasies about the two women one mystery night.
Chunga (the mesmerising Victoria Grove) is husky and commanding of voice, tolerating the ribaldry of dice-playing 'super studs', really just a bunch of cerveza-swigging layabouts.
When the dice stakes are too high for sleazy Josefino's (Stephen Connery-Brown) wallet he puts young, beautiful new girlfriend Meche (Nika Khitrova), on the table: if Chunga loans Josefino the cash for a huge bet, she can have Meche to herself until dawn.
The scene is set for plenty of heat in this simmering play by Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The Peruvian playwright himself flew out from Madrid to see the show which is being staged for the first time in the UK - theatre company Second Skin brings La Chunga to th...
Cast
Victoria Grove (Chunga)
Nika Khitrova (Meche)
Corin Rhys Jones (Lituma)
Marco Aponte (El Mono)
Tyler Coombes (Jose)
Patrick Doherty (Josefino)
Stephen Connery-Brown (Josefino)
Creative
Mario Vargas Llosa (Author)
Samuel Julyan (Producer)
Second Skin Theatre (Producer)
Andy McQuade (Director)
Mike Lees (Design)
Vasiliki Syrma (Costume)
Anna Sbokou (Lighting)
Jessica Ruano (assistant) (Director)
Genevieve Girling (assistant) (Director)
Giovanna Lo Conte (stage manager) (Other)
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