Download or read book Oliver Mayer Collected Plays written by Oliver Mayer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three plays about history, identity, love, and music by award-winning US hybrid Latino dramatist Oliver Mayer with preface by Luis Alfaro and introduction by Jon D. Rossini.
Download or read book Alejandro Morales Collected Plays written by Alejandro Morales and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three provocative plays by Cuban-American dramatist Alejandro Morales. Mixing gothic horror, humor and Lorquian homages, this collection is a bold look at new US Latino drama's possibilities. Prefaced by interview with award-winning playwright Caridad Svich
Download or read book Anne Garcia Romero Collected Plays written by Anne Garcia-Romero and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three plays by US Latina dramatist Anne Garcia Romero offer striking and sensual explorations of identity. A welcome addition to a growing body of US Latina literature for theatre and performance
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 24 Gun Control Plays written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NoPassport theatre alliance and press in collaboration with force/collision, Theater J and Twinbiz NYC commissioned and presented an evening of short works in support of gun control on Janurary 26, 2013 at Georgetown University's Gonda Theatre in Washington D.C. directed by force/collision to coincide with Molly Smith and Suzanne Blue Star Boy's March on Washington for Gun Control.
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 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 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 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 Saviana Stanescu The New York Plays written by Saviana Stanescu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of US-based Romanian playwright Saviana Stanescu's most daring, comic plays are collected in this volume with an introduction by John Clinton Eisner. Waxing West, Lenin's Shoe and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills are exciting new plays for the US and world stage.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Girl Under Grain written by Karen Hartman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIRL UNDER GRAIN is US dramatist Karen Hartman's evocative dust bowl love story inspired by the book of Ruth. Two women travel a long road to a search for beauty and grace in this poetic drama, With an introduction by director Jean Randich.
