During the advent of Chicano teatro, dozens of groups sprang up
across the country in Chicano/a communities. Since then, teatristas
have been leading voices in the creation and production of plays
touching minds and hearts that galvanize audiences to action.
Barrio Dreams is the first book to collect the work of one of
Arizona's foremost teatristas, playwright Silviana Wood. During her
decades-long involvement in theater, Wood forged a reputation as a
playwright, actor, director, and activist. Her works form a
testimonio of Chicana life, steeped in art, politics, and the
borderlands. Wood's plays challenge, question, and incite women to
consider their lot in life. She ruptures stereotypes and raises
awareness of social issues via humor and with an emphasis on the
use of the physical body on stage. The play Una vez, en un barrio
de suenos . . . offers a glimpse into familiar terrain-the barrio
and its dwellers-in three actos. In Amor de hija, a fraught
mother-daughter relationship in contemporary working-class Arizona
is dealt an additional blow as the family faces Alzheimer's
disease. In the tragedy A Drunkard's Tale of Melted Wings and
Memories, and in the trilingual (Spanish, English, and Yaqui)
tragicomedy Yo, Casimiro Flores, characters love, live, die, travel
through time and space, and visit the afterlife. And in Anhelos por
Oaxaca, a grandfather travels back in time through flashbacks, as
he and his grandson travel through homelands from Arizona to
Oaxaca. Part of Wood's genius is the way she portrays life in what
Gloria Anzaldua called ""el mundo zurdo,"" that space inhabited by
the people of color, the poor, the female, and the outsiders. It is
a place for the atravesados, the odd, the different, those who do
not fit the mainstream. The people who inhabit Wood's plays are
common folk-janitors, mothers, grandmothers, and
teenagers-hardworking people who, in one way or another, have made
their way in life and who embody life in the barrio.
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