Staging Lives in Latin American Theater

2021-04-15 Performing Arts

Author : Paola Hernández
Release : 2021-04-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 380/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Staging Lives in Latin American Theater by : Paola Hernández

Download or read book Staging Lives in Latin American Theater written by Paola Hernández. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty‐first‐century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias, the Mexican theater collective Teatro Línea de Sombra, and the Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón. Paola S. Hernández demonstrates how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage. Hernández argues that present-day, live performances catalog these material archives, expanding and reinterpreting the objects’ meanings. These performances produce an affective relationship between actor and audience, visualizing truths long obscured by repressive political regimes and transforming theatrical spaces into sites of witness. This process also highlights the liminality between fact and fiction, questioning the veracity of the archive. Richly detailed, nuanced, and theoretically wide-ranging, Staging Lives in Latin American Theater reveals a range of interpretations about how documentary theater can conceptualize the idea of self while also proclaiming a new mode of testimony through theatrical practices.

Staging Words, Performing Worlds

2007 Literary Criticism

Author : Gail A. Bulman
Release : 2007
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Staging Words, Performing Worlds written by Gail A. Bulman. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Words presents new perspectives on Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela and their theater, by postulating that nation can be imagined and reconstructed through the deliberate performance of intertexts. The book shows how past artistic texts - other plays, stories, newspaper articles, songs, or paintings - can be manipulated and translated to create a new theatrical script, and that this new script can expose an innovative space for interpreting the nation. The introduction reviews theories of intertextuality, nation, and nationalism and applies them to Latin America. Each chapter studies two to three plays and shows how the intertexts open up hidden connections and border spaces within texts and between texts that the new writer and reader fill with significance, replacing the meaning of the pretext with their own. This new textual voice permits texts to be restaged, reconfigured, and imagined in a way that is purely Latin American.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater

2003-12-30 Performing Arts

Author : Eladio Cortes
Release : 2003-12-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater written by Eladio Cortes. This book was released on 2003-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American culture has given birth to numerous dramatic works, though it has often been difficult to locate information about these plays and playwrights. This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Sections cover individual Latin American countries. Each section features alphabetically arranged entries for playwrights, independent theaters, and cultural movements. The volume begins with an overview of the development of theater in Latin America. Each of the country sections begins with an introductory survey and concludes with copious bibliographical information. The entries for playwrights provide factual information about the dramatist's life and works and place the author within the larger context of international literature. Each entry closes with a list of works by and about the playwright. A selected, general bibliography appears at the end of the volume.

Stages of Conflict

2008 Drama

Author : Diana Taylor
Release : 2008
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book Stages of Conflict written by Diana Taylor. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating anthology reveals the rich performance history of Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present

Violent Acts

1991 Latin American drama

Author : Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque
Release : 1991
Genre : Latin American drama
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Book Rating : 444/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Violent Acts written by Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albuquerque analyzes the use of violence in Latin American theatre from the 1950s through the 1980s. He argues that in the face of repression and torture, some playwrights counter victimization with art as urgent as street confrontation. A study from both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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