Synopsis
Beauty of the Father
Published by Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 2 Female
This play by Pulitzer Prizewinner Nilo Cruz is set in Andalusia, Spain, where the restless ghost of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca still wanders through the streets and converses with the living
Beauty of the Father is about a young American girl who travels to this part of the world to meet her estranged father and becomes romantically involved with his Moroccan companion
This passionate triangle explores the conflict between love and sacrifice
"[Cruz] is a writer of ideas, who fills the stage with a kind of lush dramatic literature, unifying character with thought and action in time and space" ~ The New Yorker