Chicano/Latino/Mexican American  Theatre/Drama

Beautiful Señorita's & Other Plays

Author:  Dolores Prida

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The breadth and richness of themes and styles in Dolores Prida's theater make of this collection a reading experience almost as wonderful as seeing the plays themselves.  Prida has mapped the urban landscape and covered most of the important topics of her time-- feminism, racism, classism, bilingualism-biculturalism-- quite often tempering their seriousness with humor, pathos and music.   Included in this, Prida's first collection, are the following plays:

Beautiful Señoritas (1977)--a musical satire of women's roles and images in Hispanic culture.

Coser y Cantar (1981)--a bilingual one-act play for two women which explores culture clash, especially as concerns women's roles.

Savings (1985)--a musical comedy about "gentrification."

Pantallas (1986)--a "black" comedy on the subject of TV soap operas and nuclear disasters.

Botánica (1990)--three generations of Puerto Rican women grappling with generation and culture gaps.

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Latin's Anonymous

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Nothing is sacred in the satire of Latins Anonymous.  The hilarious Latino comedy theatre company has toured the United States poking fun at all, from political figures to Latino entertainment personalities.  Formed in 1988 and performing at such mainstream venues as the Los Angeles Theater Center as well as alternative spaces in barrios across the Southwest, Latins Anonymous has developed its own distinctive, post-modern and very irreverent style of commenting on life and culture in the U.S.

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Los Pastores History and Performance in the Mexican Shepherd's Play of South Texas

Author:  Richard R. Flores

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In Los Pastores, Richard Flores recounts one San Antonio troupe's annual production of Los Pastores, a medieval nativity play that was brought to the New World by early Spanish missionaries.  Exploring the play's significance to both performers and audience, Flores traces its evolution from liturgical drama to Spanish Golden Age literature to indigenous Mexican tradition.

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Mexican American Theatre Then and Now

Edited by Nicolas Kanellos

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A collection of materials created for and generated from an exhibit.  "Two Centuries of Hispanic Theatre in the Southwest," that toured for one year to major museums in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, with funding from the humanities councils of those states.  Included here are the exhibit booklet, vaudeville sketches staged at the exhibit's openings and scholarly studies from the panel presentations at these openings.  Also included are interviews with two major figures in today's Chicano theatre:  Luis Valdez and Rodrigo Duarte.

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Pain of the Macho & Other Plays

Author:  Rick Najera

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In the face of political correctness and the feminist movement, renowned stand-up comedian, scriptwriter and satirist Rick  Najera dares to proclaim--tongue in cheek, of course--that machos are regular guys, too.  In The Pain of the Macho Najera has assembled an ensemble cast of quintessential Latin Lovers or wannabes who pour out their souls in side-splitting monologs.  But the zing in the punch-line hits us when we realize that melodramatic, teary-eyed spiels lend sly insights into the dilemma faced not just by Latin men but by all those who must exist at the margins of two intersecting cultural spheres.  The two other plays included in this wildly entertaining collection are "A Quiet Love" and "Latinologues."

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Shattering the Myths

Edited by Linda Feyder

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