Second Skin Theatre’s LA CHUNGA Heats Up The West End

Second Skin Theatre is proud to announce the return of the UK Premiere of LA CHUNGA, by Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature. This dark and disturbing drama set in 1950s Peru runs from January 24th to February 19th 2012 at the Phoenix Artist Club in the West End.

Under Artistic Director Andy McQuade's powerful direction, this masterful tale of fantasy and delusion finds self-styled 'superstuds' whiling away the hours over endless drinking and games of dice at the infamous 'Chunga's Bar'. The arrival of the beautiful Meche exposes their innermost desires and dreams until even the impervious bar owner, Chunga herself, falls under the spell of this enigmatic beauty.

In Llosa's own words LA CHUNGA was written 'to project into dramatic fiction the human totality of actions and dreams, of facts and fantasies.' The Phoenix Artist Club is the perfect subterranean setting for this exploration of morality and sexuality that reveals what occurs deep in the Peruvian underbelly.

"This drama is urgent and addictive" THE STAGE

"A highly charged erotic feast for the senses" FRINGE REVIEW

“La Chunga is like nothing in theatre at the moment… some of the best sexual tension and energy I have seen on the fringe” LONDON FRINGE REVIEW

LA CHUNGA CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM 2012

Directed by Andy McQuade

Produced by Samuel Julyan

Set Design by Guy Burnett

Costume Design by Vasiliki Syrma

Lighting Design by Anna Sbokou

Stage Manager Giovanna Lo Conte

Assistant Directors Jessica Ruano & Genevieve Girling