By José Rivera
ISBN-10: 1559363908
ISBN-13: 9781559363907
Praise for José Rivera:
"Even if you will have by no means obvious Puerto Rico or grown outdated, you sit down there ruminating on love, sacrifice, and betrayal."Chicago Tribune, on Boleros for the Disenchanted
"Teasingly engrossing. . . . Vividly written. . . . An fascinating and evocative drama."The San Francisco Chronicle, on Brainpeople
"Mr. Rivera's intimate play . . . makes use of historic truth as a body to pose exciting questions about what may have happened."The manhattan Times, on School of the Americas
Three new works from José Rivera, a author recognized for his lush language, open middle, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. Boleros for the disappointed is the relocating tale of the playwrights personal mom and dad: their candy courtship in Fifties Puerto Rico, after which 40 years later in additional tricky instances in the US. With Brainpeople, Rivera explores the afflicted minds of 3 ladies in a post-apocalyptic surroundings who dinner party on a freshly slaughtered tiger. In School of the Americas, he imagines Che Guevara's encountermore passionate than politicalwith a tender schoolteacher in Bolivia. additionally integrated is his one-act penned in protest of California's Proposition eight, Pablo and Andrew on the Altar of Words.
José Rivera's works comprise the performs References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Marisol, Cloud Tectonics, and Sueno (an version of Life Is a Dream), in addition to the Oscar-nominated screenplay to The motorbike Diaries.
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Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays by José Rivera
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