{{Short description|Gibraltarian playwright (1931–2019)}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}}

'''Elio Cruz''' (1931 – 14 June 2019) was a Gibraltarian playwright, who composed both in English and in Llanito. Cruz co-founded the Theatre Group 56 with Luis Azzopardi and Cecil Gomez. Cruz penned two of the most successful plays staged in Gibraltar: ''La Lola se va pa Londre'' and ''Connie con cama camera en el comedor,'' both in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/anuario/anuario_05/yborra/p02.htm#np59|title=La creación literaria en Gibraltar|author=José Juan Yborra Aznar|publisher=Instituto Cervantes|language=Spanish|accessdate=2012-12-23}}</ref>

Cruz died on 14 June 2019 at the age of 87.<ref>[https://www.gbc.gi/news/gibraltarian-artist-elio-cruz-has-died-aged-87 Gibraltarian artist Elio Cruz has died aged 87]</ref>

== Plays ==

* ''La Lola se va pa Londre'' (1966): comedy in two parts and seven acts * ''Connie con cama camera en el comedor'' (1969): comedy in two parts and ten acts * ''Cuando la Lola regrese de Londres''

== Bibliography ==

* Fierro Cubiella, Eduardo (1997). ''Gibraltar, aproximación a un estudio sociolingüístico y cultural de la Roca''. Cádiz: Universidad, Servicio de Publicaciones. P. 77. {{ISBN|84-7786-440-3}}

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.diariosur.es/pg060621/prensa/noticias/Gibraltar/200606/21/SUR-GIB-111.html Un oasis en el desierto] {{in lang|es}} {{Gibraltar topics}}

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