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Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance
Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance
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Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author
A curated collection of new Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground between Latinx and Latin American artists?
Featuring a mix of plays and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino Theater Company's Encuentro de las Américas festival, produced in partnership with the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in 2017. The collection chronicles not only the theatrical productions of the festival, but also features a transnational exploration of U.S. Latinx and Latin American theatre-making.
Alongside plays by Evelina Fernández, Alex Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdrán this anthology also includes a mix of monologues, snapshots, profiles and interviews that together provide a dynamic account of these intersections within U.S. Latinx and Latin American Theater. A unique collection it serves not only as a testament to the diversity of Latinx artists, but also to the strength of the Latinx Theater movement and its ever-growing networks across the Hemispheric Americas.
Full playtexts include:
Dementia by Evelina Fernández
WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharoah
Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza
10 Million by Carlos Celdrán
Table of Contents
2. An interlude with Jose Luis Valenzuela by Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero, and Chantal Rodriguez
3. Introduction by Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero, and Chantal Rodriguez
Section One: Traversing Boundaries of Gender and Sexuality
4.Dementia by Evelina Fernández (full play script), Introduction by Chantal Rodriguez
5. Las mariposas saltan al vacio by José Milián, Snapshot by Patricia Herrera
6. Quemar las Naves: el viaje de Emma by Rocío Carrillo, Profile and Interview by Teresa Marrero
Section Two: Staging Transnational Realities of Race, Ethnicity, and Class
7. Ropa Intima by Lynn Nottage, Profile and Interview by Gina Sandi-Diaz
8. Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza (full play script), Introduction by Carla Della Gatta
9. El Apagón adapted by Rosalba Rolón, Profile and Interview by Chantal Rodriguez
Section Three: The State, Politics, and Lived Experience
10. Deferred Action by David Lozano and Lee Trull, Snapshot by Teresa Marrero
11. Culture Clash: An American Odyssey by Culture Clash (monologue), Snapshot by Noe Montez
12. 10 Million by Carlos Celdrán (full play script), Introduction by Lillian Manzor
13. La razón blindada by Arístides Vargas, Snapshot by Grace Dávila-López
14. WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharaoh (full play text), Snapshot by Trevor Boffone
Section Four: Music and Autobiographical Performance
15. Conjunto Blues by Nicolas Valdez (monologue), Snapshot by Marci McMahon
16. Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre, Profile and Interview by Trevor Boffone
17. Latin Standards by Marga Gomez (monologue), Snapshot by Isaac Gomez
18. Conclusion by Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero, and Chantal Rodriguez
19. Afterword by Carlos Morton
Product details
| Published | Oct 21 2021 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350230200 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Methuen Drama Play Collections |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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