Bleeding Heart (NHB Modern Plays)

A short dark comedy from Spain, set during the Holy Week Festival in present-day Seville where Winston, a naive middle-aged transvestite, encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'. Antonio Onetti's play Bleeding Heart was first performed in this English translation by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1997.

Antonio Onetti is a well-known Spanish screenwriter, playwright and theatre director. He studied Drama at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid. He has worked as a dramaturgy and dramatic writing teacher. He has participated in some of the most important projects of the Spanish TV and film industry for over 25 years, being a screenwriter in over 20 projects, such as The Cathedral of the Sea, Cuéntame cómo pasó, 20-N: Los últimos días de Franco, or Lola, la película. He was also the co-creator of two very successful series: Amar en tiempos revueltos and Amar es para siempre. As a playwright, he has staged and published all of his plays in Spain, although some have also been staged in other European countries, Latin America and Africa. He has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Romanian.