Celestino Gorostiza

Celestino Gorostiza Alcalá (born January 31, 1904, in Villahermosa – January 11, 1967, in Mexico City) was a Mexican theater and cine playwright, director and dramatist.

Biography

Gorostiza, son of Celestino Gorostiza and Elvira Alcalá de Gorostiza, was the older brother of José Gorostiza. He was co-founder of the Ulises theater (1927-1928) and of the Orientación theater (1932), both in Mexico City^[1] Gorostiza was married to Araceli Otero Mena, older sister of Clementina Otero. Araceli gave birth to their daughter Paloma Gorostiza Otero.^[2]

He was a numbered member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and a member of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, as well as director of the department of theater at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.^[3] Due to his 100th birthday in 2004, a 7 Mex$ memorial stamp was launched.^[4]

Filmography

Director

• Ave de paso (1948)
• Sinfonía de una vida (1946; English title Symphony of Life)
• Nana (1944; together with Roberto Gavaldón)

Writer

• Paraíso robado (dialogue, adaptation; 1951; English title: Stolen Paradise)
• My General's Women (1951) (; based on the story "La soldadera", written together with Joselito Rodríguez)
• Ave de paso (1948; together with Max Aub and María Gesa)
• Sinfonía de una vida (1946; together with Max Aub, María Gesa and Pablo González)
• Nana (dialogue; 1944)
• La guerra de los pasteles (story; 1944; English title: War of the Pastries)
• Refugiados en Madrid (dialogue; 1938; English title: Refugees in Madrid)

Production supervisor

• Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936; American title: Let's Go with Pancho Villa; English title: Let's Join Pancho Villa)

Theater works

• La Malinche, 1958 (historical drama)^[5]
• La leña está verde, 1958^[6]
• Columna social, 1953^[5]
• El color de nuestra piel, 1952 (three-act play)^[7]
• La mujer ideal, 1943^[7]
• La reina de la nieve, 1942^[7]
• Escombros del sueño, 1938^[6]
• El nuevo paraíso, 1930^[6]
• Ser o no ser, 1934^[6]
• La escuela del amor, 1933^[6]

Awards

• Premio Ruiz de Alarcón, for El color de nuestra piel, 1952^[7]

Literature

• Celestino Gorostiza - una vida para el teatro (Spanish), Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 2004 OCLC 57749411
• Celestino Gorostiza (1904–1967)- Teatro completo (Spanish), 2004 ISBN 968-5422-70-2

References

1. Biografia de Celestino Gorostiza (Spanish)
2. El trato con Gorostiza.(El Angel) (Spanish), February 1, 2004.
3. (Spanish)
4. 100 years memorial stamp from 2004^{[permanent dead link‍]}
5. Andrea G. Labinger: Time, Space and the Refracted Self in Gorostiza's Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Spring 1979.
6. Teatro Ulises (1928) - Celestino Gorostiza (1904-1967), in Lateinamerikanisches Theater Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine (German), University of Graz.
7. Lateinamerikanisches Theater nach Ländern Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine (German), University of Graz.

External links

• Celestino Gorostiza in the Ibero-American Institute's catalogue
• Celestino Gorostiza at IMDb