Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performance

by Caridad Svich (Editor), Maria Teresa Marrero (Editor)

Overview

There is a new generation of Latina/o dramatists afoot. According to Caridad Svich, editor of Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performance, "There is a wave of dramatists, storytellers and poets, creating work intensely personal and idiosyncratic, eerie and lyrical, metaphysical and emotive. Flourishing within the margins of an already marginalized theatrical environment, they align themselves with resurgent poetry and the spoken-word movement, with alternative music and literature scenes; their work is bred on the economics of poetry and the nurturing of their work outside official venues."

Collected here are 10 beautifully inventive, shape-changing, form-molding, poetic masterworks of the American theatre:

Luis Alfaro, Straight as a Line
Coco Fusco/Nao Bustamante, Stuff
Migdalia Cruz, Fur
Nilo Cruz, Night Train to Bolina
Naomi Iizuka, Skin
Oliver Mayer, Ragged Time
Pedro Monge-Rafuls, Trash
Cherríe Moraga, The Hungry Woman: Mexican Medea
Monica Palacios, Greetings from a Queer Señorita
Caridad Svich, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559361712
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

	Out of the Fringe: In Defense of Beauty (An Introduction)	ix
	Manifestations of Desires: A Critical Introduction	xvii
	Straight As A Line	1
	Stuff	43
	Fur: A Play In Nineteen Scenes	71
	Night Train to Bolina	115
	Skin: An Adaptation of Buchner's Woyzeck	159
	Ragged Time	201
	Trash: A Monologue	273
	The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea	289
	Greetings From A Queer Senorita	365
	Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues: A Play With Songs	393
	From the U.K.: A European Perspective on Latino Theatre: (An Afterword)	451