"An invaluable resource to teachers of Latin American theater, with
texts that provide an accurate panorama of Latin American
theater."
---Adam Versenyi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"A most welcome and needed collection . . . Not only is it the
first English-language anthology of theater and performance in
Latin America from the Conquest onward, but it also includes
excellent introductory and background material . . . certain to
become an essential source book."
---Marvin Carlson, City University of New York
"A rich resource for teachers and students, and for everyone
intrigued by the history of performing Latin America . . . Diana
Taylor and Sarah Townsend locate an animating tension between
indigenous and colonial performance practices, and between the
irreducibly local character of performance and the insistent
pressure---as visible in the sixteenth century as in the
twenty-first---of a globalizing, often oppressive modernity."
---W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University
"Stages of Conflict" brings together a vast array of dramatic
texts, ambitiously tracing the intersection of theater and social
and political life in the Americas over the past five centuries.
Including eighteen works faithfully translated into English, the
collection moves from a sixteenth century Mayan dance-drama to a
2003 production by the first published indigenous playwright in
Mexico. Historical pieces from the sixteenth century to the present
highlight the encounter between indigenous tradition and
colonialism, while contributions from modern playwrights such as
Virgilio Pinero, Jose Triana, and Denise Stolkos take on the
tumultuous political and social upheavalsof the past century.
The editors have added comprehensive critical commentary that
details the origins of each play, affording scholars and students
of theater, performance studies, and Latin American studies the
opportunity to view the history of a continent through its rich and
diverse theatrical traditions.
Diana Taylor is Director of The Hemispheric Institute of
Performance and Politics (http:
//hemi.nyu.edu/eng/about/index.shtml) and Professor of Performance
Studies and Spanish at New York University. Her books include the
award-winning volume "The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing
Cultural Memory in the Americas,"
Sarah J. Townsend is a doctoral student at New York
University.
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