Emilio Carballido (1925-2008) was one of the most innovative and
accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding
creators in the new Latin American theater. By his mid-forties he
had already produced an impressive body of works in two very
different veins. On the one hand, he mastered the techniques of the
"well-made play." On the other, he developed a richly rewarding
vein of fantasy, sometimes poetic, sometimes comic, sometimes
macabre-and sometimes all three. The plays in this volume are in
the latter vein, ranging from surrealist farce in "The Intermediate
Zone" to the grotesqueries of "The Time and the Place," from
tragicomedy in "Theseus" to the dreamlike permutations of "The
Golden Thread." But even at his most fantastic, Carballido never
loses his remarkable gift for characterization: his peevish
Minotaur, his raffish Nahual (were-jaguar) are wholly believable
monsters.
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