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Jacobo Langsner (23 June 1927 – 10 August 2020) [1] was a Uruguayan playwright who had a strong presence in the Uruguayan theatre from 1950 onwards. His work is a showcase of middle-class hypocrisy.
Jacobo Langsner (23 June 1927 – 10 August 2020) [1] was a Uruguayan playwright who had a strong presence in the Uruguayan theatre from 1950 onwards. His work is a showcase of middle-class hypocrisy.
Langsner, like Florencio Sánchez and Ernesto Herrera before him, portrays Uruguayan characters moved by tragic fate, by vices and passions. Intensely American in his portrayal of the primitive drives of the disinherited of his adopted land, he unveils human drives which are too basic to be identified, defined or limited by a single geograph-
The movie belongs to the criollo grotesque (costumbrismo) genre and is based on the play of the same name by Jacobo Langsner, premiered by the Comedia Nacional company in 1962. The film adaptation starred local well-known figures from the theatre world, such as Antonio Gasalla, China Zorrilla, Luis Brandoni and Betiana Blum.
(1927– ) Uruguayan playwright and screenwriter. Born in Romania, raised in Uruguay, and a Buenos Aires resident since the 1960s, Langsner is best known for Waiting for the Hearse (1962), one ... From: Langsner, Jacobo in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre. Related content in Oxford Reference.
Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
Waiting for the Hearse (Spanish: Esperando la carroza) is a theatrical play, written by the Uruguayan Jacobo Langsner. It belongs to the criollo grotesque (costumbrismo) genre or black comedy and premiered in Montevideo in 1962. Ever since it has seen many adaptations, including the world-famous 1985 film of the same name.
