Research Catalog

Title

Boleros for the disenchanted and other plays / José Rivera.

Author

Rivera, José, 1955-

Publication

New York : Theatre Communications Group ; [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Yew, Chay

Description

xiii, 237 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"From the fecund imagination of José Rivera, a writer known for his lunch language, open heart and stylistic flirting with the surreal, come four new plays that interweave love and politics. Boleros for the disenchanted is a story of the playwright's own parents: their falling in love in 1950s Puerto Rico up through more difficult times forty years later in America. In Brainpeople, three desolate women in a postapocalyptic Los Angeles feast on a slaughtered tiger . Adoration of the old woman centers on a young American woman sent to Puerto Rico during a vote for statehood to stay with her great-grandmother, who is being visited by her dead husband's lover. Pablo and Andrew at the altar of words, a one-act penned in protest of California's Proposition 8, is an exuberant confession of love between two men."--Cover, p. [4].

Subject

American literature > Puerto Rican authors

Genre/Form

• Drama
• Théâtre.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / by Chay Yew -- Boleros for the disenchanted -- Brainpeople -- Pablo and Andrew at the altar of words -- Adoration of the old woman -- University of Southern California School of Theatre commencement speech, 2010.

ISBN

• 9781559363907
• 1559363908

LCCN

^^2011049308

OCLC

• 669755065
• SCSB-11583353

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library