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3 masterpieces of Cuban drama

Title: 3 masterpieces of Cuban drama / plays by Julio Matas, Carlos Felipe, and Virgilio Piñera ; translated from the Spanish and edited with an introduction by Luis F. González-Cruz and Ann Waggoner Aken.
Publication: KØbenhavn ; Los Angeles : Green Integer, 2000.

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259 pages; 16 cm

Summary

"Beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1950s, a succession of dramatic groups appeared in Havana, introducing select Cuban audiences to the artistic trends that had been revolutionizing the European stage since the turn of the Twentieth Century. From this dynamic theater movement emerged several first-rate playwrights among whom stand out Julio Matas, Carlos Felipe, and Virgilio Pinera, included here. As a director, Matas was the first to stage Eugene Ionesco's theater in Havana. Matas's play "El extravio" ("Deviations") had its premiere, in both Spanish and English, in Miami in 1993, and was later presented in Costa Rica as part of the annual Festival of the Arts. Felipe's "The Chinaman" was written in 1947, and was staged in Havana that same year. It was awarded first prize of the competition sponsored by the Academia de Artes Dramaticas. The third play, "An Empty Shoebox," by renowned Cuban writer Virgilio Pinera (author of, among other works, the novel La carne de Rene [Rene's Flesh] and the collection of tales Cuentos frios [Cold Tales]), was written in 1968 and was sent clandestinely by the author to Luis Gonzalez-Cruz, who published an annotated edition of the play in Spanish in 1986. Together, these plays represent some of the most outstanding and broad-ranging theater traditions in Cuba before and after the Revolution."--Jacket

Series Statement

Green Integer ; 70

Uniform Title

Green Integer (Series) ; 70.

Alternative Title

Three masterpieces of Cuban drama

Subject

Genre/Form

Drama
Translations
Drama.
Théâtre.

Note

"Green Integer (Series) v.70."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-259).

Contents

Introduction -- Deviations / Julio Matas -- The Chinaman / Carlos Felipe -- An empty shoe box / Virgilio Piñera -- Selected critical bibliography.

ISBN

1892295660
9781892295668

LCCN

2010674199

OCLC

ocm45157017
45157017
SCSB-9187929

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library