José Triana’s Night of the Assassins to go on stage

It’s based on José Triana’s Night of the Assassins. Mehdi Mohebali (Sahab) has translated, prepared and directed it.

 

The story deals with the lives of two sisters and a brother who intend to kill their parents.

 

José Triana (4 January 1931 – 4 March 2018) was a Cuban poet and playwright.

Triana wrote his first play, The Major General Will Speak of Theogony, in 1957, and began work on his best known play Night of the Assassins later that year. After Fidel Castro took power in 1959, Triana returned to Cuba. In 1960, Triana's Medea in the Mirror was produced at the Prometeo Theatre. The following year, Triana joined the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba as a founding member.

 

In 1965, he was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize for Night of the Assassins, which he had rewritten earlier that year. The rewritten play won El Gallo of Havana Prize in 1966. International attention resulting from the awards caused supporters of the Cuban Revolution to turn against Triana and his work.