Out of the Fringe | 
| Creators: Caridad Svich, Maria Teresa Marrero
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 1559361719
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54080868
EAN: 9781559361712
ASIN: 1559361719
Publication Date: December 15, 1999
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Product Description
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
Cherre Moraga, The Hungry Woman: Mexican Medea
Monica Palacios, Greetings from a Queer Seorita
Caridad Svich, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues
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great new plays March 18, 2000
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Out of the Fringe" provides an electric and eclectic new world of plays by latinas/latinos. Thanks to this handsome new anthology, latino/latina theater is shown to alive and thriving in the U.S., whether in the hands of gay activist chicano humorist Luis Alfaro or lyrical cuban-american Nilo Cruz. Caridad Svich, who compiled the anthology, has an extremely musical incantatory play included as well. It is a testament to the energetic state of latino/latina theater and thought that mixed-blood chicano Oliver Mayer writes a play which has but a single latina character and whose themes are national more than regional. This is a must-read. These plays should be done!
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