Download or read book Octavio Solis The River Plays El Otro Dreamlandia Bethlehem written by Octavio Solis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects three of US Latino playwright Octavio Solis' most exciting plays about US-Mexico border relations. With a preface by Douglas Langworthy, this is an essential volume to deepen understanding of not only US Latino and Chicano theatre but American theatre as a whole.
Download or read book Orpheus X and other plays written by Rinde Eckert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four plays for music-theatre and performance by accomplished multi-disciplinary playwright-poet-lyricist-composer-storyteller Rinde Eckert. This volume includes his Pulitzer Prize nominated play ORPHEUS X as well as the plays HORIZON, AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES and THE GARDENING OF THOMAS D. With an introduction by scholar Jonathan Chambers, this is an exciting and daring collection by an eminent experimental theatre artist.
Download or read book empanada for a dream written by juan francisco villa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EMPANADA FOR A DREAM by writer/performer Juan Francisco Villa is one boy's story of growing up hard and fast on the Lower East Side. A moving, beautiful tale of love, loss, heartache and forgiveness. EMPANADA FOR A DREAM is a poignant and entertaining portrait of family and neighborhood - set against the secret that destroys it all. It's a story about growing up. It's a story about getting out. And coming back -- to one boy's Lower East Side.
Download or read book War Plays written by Christine Evans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WAR PLAYS by Christine Evans collects for the first time three of this US-based, UK-Australian playwright's remarkable plays about war and aftermath: Trojan Barbie, Mothergun and Slow Falling Bird. With an introduction by esteemed filmmaker Peter Davis, this collection is a terrific introduction to Evans' astute theatrical voice.
Download or read book Dark Matters and other plays written by Oliver Mayer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three new plays from American playwright Oliver Mayer take feisty, sexy, playful turns through stories of politics, identity, freedom, music, and trans-locality. With an introduction by dramatist Velina Hasu Houston.
Download or read book Self Defense and Other Plays written by Carson Kreitzer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELF DEFENSE and other plays collects for the first time four astonishing, rigorous, heartbreaking plays by acclaimed dramatist Carson Kreitzer. With a preface by director Mark Wing-Davey and an introduction by dramaturg Mead K. Hunter, this volume will impact American theatre for a long time.
Download or read book A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick and other plays written by Kia Corthron and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK AND OTHER PLAYS collects three fascinating, political plays by accomplished US playwright Kia Corthron. The book also includes a personal essay on Liberia and its political landscape as well as a preface by Michael John Garces, artistic director of Cornerstone Theatre in Los Angeles, and an interview by playwright Kara Lee Corthron.
Download or read book Envisioning the Americas Latina O Theatre Performance written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envisioning the Americas: Latina/o Theatre & Performance gathers five plays by five of the US' most daring Latina/o dramatists: Migdalia Cruz, John Jesurun, Oliver Mayer, Alejandro Morales, and Anne Garcia-Romero. With a preface by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and multiple award-winning playwright Jose Rivera, edited with an introduction by Caridad Svich. A sensual, provocative collection destined to stir things up theatrically in American theatre. Cigarettes and Moby-Dick by Migdalia Cruz Liz One by John Jesurun Dias y Flores by Oliver Mayer Marea by Alejandro Morales and Land of Benjamin Franklin by Anne Garcia-Romero Introduced and Edited by Caridad Svich
Download or read book AMERICAN JORNALERO written by Ed Cardona Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICAN JORNALERO: This new play by playwright Ed Cardona Jr., premiered at INTAR in New York City in May 2012, focuses on the plight of a group of day laborers/jornaleros in Queens. A portrait of the intersecting transient lives in the search for a daily wage in a land of many compromised American dreams. A compassionate, clear-eyed and illuminating look at lives and people too often ignored in the US landscape, AMERICAN JORNALERO is a vibrant play.
Download or read book No Roosters in the Desert written by Kara Hartzler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO ROOSTERS IN THE DESERT is a new play by Kara Hartzler based on field work by Anna Ochoa O'Leary about the plight of four women who cross the US-Mexico border at great risk and sacrifice. This play was originally commissioned by Borderlands Theater in Tucson, Arizona.
Download or read book Exit Cuckoo Nanny in Motherland written by Lisa Ramirez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play by Lisa Ramirez which charts the lives of nannies, mothers and children trying to get by in a complicated social-political matrix that makes the responsibility of parenting and child care a difficult emotionally tangled legal and moral web. A tale of daily triumphs by a US Latina solo performer and writer whose work has been championed by Eve Ensler.
Download or read book A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U S written by Beatriz J. Rizk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the Latinx performing arts in what is now the U.S. since the sixteenth century. This book combines theories and philosophical thought developed in a wide spectrum of disciplines—such as anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, and linguistics, among others—and productions’ reviews, historical context, and political implications. Split into two volumes, these books offer interpretations and representations of a wide range of Latinxs’ lived experiences in the U.S. Volume I provides a chronological overview of the evolution of the Latinx community within the U.S., spanning from the 1500s to today, with an emphasis on the Chicano artistic renaissance initiated by Luis Valdez and the Teatro Campesino in the 1960s. Volume II continues, looking more in depth at the experiences of Latinx individuals on theatre and performance, including Miguel Piñero, Lin-Manuel Miranda, María Irene Fornés, Nilo Cruz, and John Leguizamo, as well as the important role of transnational migration in Latinx communities and identities across the U.S. A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. offers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of the field and is ideal for students, researchers, and instructors of theatre studies with an interest in the diverse and complex history of Latinx theatre and performance.
Download or read book Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre written by Paola S. Hernández and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre is a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative theatre practitioners in the Americas, all of whom have been pioneers in changing the field. The chosen artists work through political, racial, gender, class, and geographical divides to expand our understanding of Latin American and Latinx theatre while at the same time offering a space to discuss contested nationalities and histories. Each entry considers the artist’s or collective’s body of work in its historical, cultural, and political context and provides a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. The volume covers artists from the present day to the 1960s—the emergence of a modern theatre that was concerned with Latinx and Latin American themes distancing themselves from an European approach. A deep and enriching resource for the classroom and individual study, this is the first book that any student of Latinx and Latin American theatre should read.
Download or read book Performance Identity and Immigration Law written by G. Guterman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us.
Download or read book Retablos written by Octavio Solis and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed! The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know "what's life really like on the Mexican border." "Solis grew up just a mile from the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, and he tells stories about his childhood and coming of age, including his parents migration to the United States from Mexico, his first encounter with racism and finding a Mexican migrant girl hiding in the cotton fields."—Concepción de León, New York Times Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes—a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border. More praise for Octavio Solis's Retablos: "This is American and Mexican literature a stone's throw from the always hustling El Paso border."—Gary Soto, author of The Elements of San Joaquin "We inhabit a border world rich in characters, lush with details, playful and poignant, a border that refutes the stereotypes and divisions smaller minds create. Solis reminds us that sometimes the most profound truths are best told with crafted fictions--and he is a master at it."--Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents " . . . it's hard not to consider the border itself as a representation of a 'terrible rift,' a split between homes, communities, identities, generations. While reading this generous and eye-opening account, it's easy to see how, for the country at large, the rift has only deepened.”-- Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed Best Books of Fall 2018 "Landing somewhere between Neil Gaiman and Juan Rulfo, Solis secularizes the mythological by turning men and women into saintly figures—like their criada [maid], Consuelo, and a white priest who shows his family empathy—and monsters: border agents who take his friends away and school bullies."—Michael Adam Carroll, The Millions "There has never been a border book like Retablos, a collection of smoldering epiphanies suffering the baptizing waters of recall. . . ."—Roberto Ontiveros, San Antonio Current "The book is rendered in tight, stand-alone recollections rich with poetry and honesty. . . . If retablos are offerings, then Solis' book is a gift of memory, not always pleasant, but always true."—Beatriz Terrazas, Dallas Morning News "The experience of reading his tightly contained memories in succession is a bit like drawing old coins up from a wishing well. Filtered through veils of distance and time, these scenes and reflections are wonderful and weird flashes of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood in the life of this particular Mexican American boy."-- Sophie Haigney, San Francisco Chronicle "Octavio Solis' Retablos recounts a 'beautiful, messy' youth on the border. Though its title evokes Mexican folk art, Retablos is closer in effect to that of French pointillism. Its small dabs of vivid color produce a brilliant cumulative effect."—Steven G. Kellman, The Texas Observer
Download or read book Nuestras Voces Latino Plays Volume One written by Jorge Gonzalez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three plays that examine nation-hood, identity, border crossing by three outstanding contemporary US Latino authors who have been part of MetLife Foundation's Nuestras Voces program at venerable institution Spanish Repertory Theatre in NYC.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Latinidad written by Trevor Boffone and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays.
