She seems a fragile support for an ambitious family canvas: this slender barefoot woman in a white nightdress, often seen huddled in a wooden rocking chair. Yet, in "La Señorita de Tacna (The Young Lady From Tacna)," the 1981 play by the Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, the vulnerable but determined spinster known as Mamae (Luz Nicolas) holds the secrets of multiple generations toward the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PM on February 10, 2014