Symposium back issues from January 2008:
Introduction: stages of (dis)integration: Latin American theater in a global context.
Jan 01, 2008; ... AUDIENCES AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ENJOYED unprecedented exposure to Latin American theater in recent years. International theater collaborations such as BAiT (Buenos Aires in Translation) and professional stagings of individual plays in places such as Prague, Calgary, Madrid, Paris, and ...
Immigration and the revival of the sainete in post-2001 Argentine theater: El Super crisol by Los Macocos.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author compares the representation of immigration in the Argentine sainete of the early-twentieth century with later adaptations of the genre, focusing closely on the work El Super crisol (2005), by Los Macocos, a play that addresses the experience of Chinese, Romanian, ...
The politics of abjection in P.A.R.G.O.: Los Pecados Permitidos by Waddys Jaquez.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: P.A.R.G.O.: Los Pecados Permitidos (2001) by the Dominican playwright, director, and actor Waddys Jaquez has resonated with diverse audiences across the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean because it presents a tragicomic vision of the interchange of people, capital, ...
Memorias incompletas: el espacio del escenario argentino de la posdictadura.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author explores the political and social effect of postdictatorship theater on Argentine contemporary society. Within the theoretical framework of memory studies, the author argues these plays elicit knowledge and understanding of a repressive and dictatorial past, and ...
Gabriel Peveroni's Luna roja: eclipsing and recycling information and meaning on the stage.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Gabriel Peveroni's Luna roja (2006), a chaotic play about a dysfunctional kingdom, features several characters who search for love, freedom, and power as they commit murder, quarrel with partners, search for soulmates, and threaten the queen's authority. This play delivers a ...
The challenges of translation, the deception of reception: the case of Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman by Sabina Berman.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Few plays from Latin America are translated and produced by professional theater companies in the English-speaking world. The reason for this, Diana Taylor has argued, is Latin American theater's "deceptive familiarity." If a play is too exotic, it is deemed illegible; if it is ...
Priscilla Melendez. The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... PRISCILLA MELENDEZ. The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures 282. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Dept. of Romance Lang., 2006. 227 pp. THE POLITICS OF FARCE IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH AMERICAN ...
Jean Graham-Jones, ed. and trans. Reason Obscured: Nine Plays by Ricardo Monti.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... JEAN GRAHAM-JONES, ed. and trans. Reason Obscured: Nine Plays by Ricardo Monti. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2004. 424 pp. It has been reported that when the lights went down on the performance of A Night with Mr. Magnus & Sons at the first Patagonian National Theater Festival in ...