- Leilah Assunção
Leilah Assunção, or Leilah Assumpção (born Maria de Lourdes Torres de Assunção, 1943) is a
Brazil ian dramatist, actress and writer.Her first play, "Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito" (Speak Quietly or I’ll Scream), won the Molière award from the theatre critics of
São Paulo when it was staged in 1969. She aimed to shock the audience by her choice of topic and language: depicting a middle-aged woman meeting an intruder. She was one of the leaders of New Theatre in the 1960s and several of her early plays were banned by censors.ources
* Irwin Stern, "Dictionary of Brazilian Literature" - pp. 44-45
* Larson & Vargas (ed.), "Latin American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories", Indiana University Press (1999), ISBN 0253212405 - pp.202-214
* David George, "Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period", Routledge (1999), ISBN 0815333609 - pp. 66-8
* [http://www.itaucultural.org.br/aplicExternas/enciclopedia_teatro/index.cfm?fuseaction=personalidades_biografia&cd_verbete=375 Bio details, Itaú Cultural Institute] - in Portuguese
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