Maruxa Vilalta - Plays and Awards

Plays and Awards

• Los disorientados (The Disoriented Ones), 1960.
• Un país feliz (A Happy country), 1964.
• Soliloquio del Tiempo (Time’s Soliloquy), 1964.
• Un día loco (A Crazy Day), 1964.
• La última letra (The Last Letter), 1964.
• El 9 (Number Nine), 1965.
• Cuestión de narices (A Question of Noses), 1966. Prize for the Best Group and Best Director, Ramón Dagés, at the Manresa Theatre Festival, 1974.
• Esta noche juntos, amándonos tanto (Together Tonight, Loving Each Other so Much), 1970. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Best Play of the Year Prize, and Best Play of the Year Prize at the Las Máscaras Festival, Morelia.
• Nada como el piso 16 (Nothing Like the Sixteenth Floor), 1976. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Best Play of the Year Prize and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Best Play of the Year Prize.
• Historia de él (The Story of Him), 1978. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Best Play of the Year Prize and El Fígaro Best Play of the Year Prize.
• Una mujer, dos hombres y un balazo (A Woman, Two Men and One Bullet), 1981. It contents four one act-plays that can be staged separately: En Las Lomas, esa noche (That Night in Las Lomas), El té de los señores Mercier (Mr. and Mrs. Mercier’s Tea), El barco ebrio (The Drunken Ship), Archie & Bonnie (Archie & Bonnie).
• Pequeña historia de horror (y de amor desenfrenado) (Little Story of Horror (and Unbridled Love)), 1985.
• Una voz en el desierto. Vida de San Jerónimo (A Voice in the Wilderness. The Life of Saint Jerome) Mexican Association of Theatre Critics Best Play of Creative Research Prize, 1991. Society of Theatre Journalists Prize 1991 and Claridades Best Play of the Year Prize, 1991.
• Francisco de Asís (Francis of Assisi) Mexican Association of Theater Critics Best Play of Creative Research Prize), 1992.
• Jesucristo entre nosotros (Jesus Christ Among Us), 1994.
• Ignacio y los jesuitas (Ignatius and the Jesuits), 1997.
• 1 9 1 0 (1 9 1 0), 2000 and 2001.
• Con vista a la bahía (With a View of the Bay) is produced by Conaculta, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and Centro Cultural Helénico, from May to September 2007.

Besides her theater plays prizes she has received the following honors: Certificate from the Mexican Institute of Culture(1963). Certificate from the Mexico City Cultural Program for the 19th Olympic Games (1968). Appointed Vice President of the College of Literature, of the Mexican Institute of Culture (1968). Literary Merit Prize, Círculo de Letras Nuevos Horizontes, Managua, Nicaragua, (1972). El 9 (Number Nine) published in the anthology The Best Short Plays 1973, compiled by Stanley Richards. Honorary Member of the Women’s Association of Journalists and Writers (1974). Named Woman of the Decade 1980-1990 by the Women’s Association of Journalists and Writers. Claridades Honor Prize for her Outstanding Contributions to the Arts (1998). In 2001 The Ninth Journeys on Latin American Theater, organized by the University of Tennessee, in Puebla, Mexico, were dedicated to Maruxa Vilalta for her career as a playwright.