Chicano Drama (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama, Series Number 12) - Softcover

Huerta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521778174 ISBN 13: 9780521778176

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Luís Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Huerta looks at plays by and about Chicanas and Chicanos, as they explore through performance, the community and its identity caught between the United States and Mexico. Through informative biographies of each playwright and analyses of their plays, Huerta offers an accessible introduction to this important aspect of American theater and culture. The book contains photographs from key productions and will be invaluable to students, scholars and general theatergoers.

About this title

Book Description:

This is the first book since Jorge Huerta's earlier study Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms to explore the diversity and energy of Chicano theatre. Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Luis Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Through informative biographies of each playwright and a nalyses of their plays, Huerta offers an accessible introduction to this important aspect of American theatre and culture. The book contains photographs from key productions and will be invaluable to students, scholars and general theatregoers.

Review:

"This reviewer applauds both Huerta, for bringing to the foreground new plays and playwrights [sic] who have attained success in mainstream theater production and for making these works accessible to a wide readership, and series editor Don Wilmeth (Brown), for adding this important volume to the significant and original scholarship of the cultural and social context of theater." Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521778174
• ISBN 13: 9780521778176
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224