*EYING THE BORDER

Jose Ramon Fernandez; Trans. By Susan Berardini; Juan Carlos Rubio; Trans. By Laureano Corces

ISBN 10: 1888463384 / ISBN 13: 9781888463385

Published by Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: *EYING THE BORDER
• Publisher: Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888463384
• ISBN 13: 9781888463385
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This is a Spanish/English bilingual edition that includes both the original dramatic text in Spanish and the English translation. Forever Mesmerized by Jose Ramon Fernandez is a libretto for actors and dancers to be performed in word and movement. It is a story of North African immigrants fleeing economic crisis and civil war and washed ashore in Spain. The action is shaped by the injustices of war and poverty that lead to desperate flight, complicated by two impossible love triangles, and overwhelmed by the tribal forces of racism, duty and blood. Arizona by Juan Carlos Rubio centers on the historical Minuteman Project event of 2005 that took place along the 23 mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border that united over 1.200 activist volunteers from several states in USA to monitor, count and scare away undocumented immigrants. Arizona eerily foreshadows the consequences of a nativist movement steeped in racial and religious bigotry. It reveals the sinister message enveloped in the shrill, wistful and dangerous political discourse that praises an idealized golden age when the rule of white men was supreme and unquestioned--before globalization, civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, multiculturalism, and pluralism.This ideology will catapult the action into an unstoppable train wreck causing irreparable damage to the physical and moral fiber of a society unhinged by fear.

About the Author

Jose Ramon Fernandez is a distinguished and award-winning playwright of the contemporary Spanish stage. Co-founder of El Astillero Theater Group and associated with Madrid's Alternative Theater during the early 1990's, he has staged more than 30 plays, including full-length and short original works, and has adapted 20 classical works. History and intertextuality are the contextual and structural axes of Fernandez's dramatizations of injustice and human suffering, their consequences and their transcendence. Juan Carlos Rubio is a master storyteller, award-winning playwright, actor, and stage and film director from Andalusia, Spain. Bold, insightful, comic, sensuous, and poetic, his theater has not only embraced the persistent dramatic themes of love, loss, personal and political conflict, and redemption but it has also expanded its discourse to include a diversity of minority voices and perspectives.