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Comedy / 3m, 3f / Areas La Gringa is about a young woman's search
for her identity. Maria Elena Garcia goes to visit her family in
Puerto Rico during the Christmas holidays and arrives with plans to
connect with her homeland. Although this is her first trip to
Puerto Rico, she has had an intense love for the island and even
majored in Puerto Rican Studies in college. Once Maria is in Puerto
Rico, she realizes that Puerto Rico does not welcome her with open
arms. The majority of the Puerto Ricans on the island consider her
an American - a gringa -- and Maria considers this a betrayal. If
she's a Puerto Rican in the United States and an American in Puerto
Rico - Maria concludes that she is nobody everywhere. Her uncle,
Manolo, spiritually teaches her that identity isn't based on
superficial and external definitions, but rather is an essence that
she has had all along in her heart. This play is published in a
bilingual edition, if you are applying for licensing rights please
state which version (English or Spanish) you wish to produce. "90
minutes of laughter...Carmen Rivera has captured the spirit of the
Puerto Rican experience."- D.J.R. Bruckner, The New York Times
"Carmen Rivera's deft playwriting delivers Maria from her
personality crisis with spiritual transcendence."- Ed Morales, The
Village Voice "Carmen Rivera has suceeded in giving voice to the
cultural search of Puerto Ricans raised in the Tower of Babel."-
Juan Mendez, El Diario - La Presa
Demographers predict that by the end of the century
Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group
in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be
considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the
state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and
Rivera-Martinez analyze bilingual education policies and programs,
particularly as they affect the Puerto Rican child, and reach some
startling conclusions. They find that these programs do not,
despite the best intentions, offer the equal opportunity and social
mobility that has been their purpose. While the authors attempt to
neither examine nor define the general problem of bilingual
education methodology, they do address the problem of educating the
Puerto Rican child as one minority among many. They suggest
alternatives for solving the problem and recommend specific
policies for federal, state, and local governments attempting to
integrate Spanish-speaking minorities into the educational process.
Demographers predict that by the end of the century
Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group
in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be
considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the
state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and
Rivera-Martinez analyze bilingual education policies and programs,
particularly as they affect the Puerto Rican child, and reach some
startling conclusions. They find that these programs do not,
despite the best intentions, offer the equal opportunity and social
mobility that has been their purpose. While the authors attempt to
neither examine nor define the general problem of bilingual
education methodology, they do address the problem of educating the
Puerto Rican child as one minority among many. They suggest
alternatives for solving the problem and recommend specific
policies for federal, state, and local governments attempting to
integrate Spanish-speaking minorities into the educational process.
Comedy / 3m, 3f / Areas La Gringa es la busqueda de identidad de
una joven de origen puertorriqueno nacida en los Estados Unidos.
Maria Elena decide visitar a su familia borinquena durante las
navidades y llega a Puerto Rico con gran ilusion de conectarse con
ellos y con la madre patria. Aunque es su primer viaje a Puerto
Rico, ella siempre ha tenido un gran amor por la isla y hasta ha
estudiado la historia del pais en la Universidad. Sin embargo a su
llegada se da cuenta de que la isla no le da la bienvenida. La
mayoria de los puertorriquenos la consideran americana - una gringa
- y Maria Elena se siente traicionada por los suyos. Maria Elena
llega a la conclusion de que si es puertorriquena en los Estados
Unidos y americana en Puerto Rico, en realidad no es nadie a donde
quiera que vaya. Su tio Manolo, le ensena que la identidad no esta
basada en lo superficial o lo externo sino que es una esencia que
ella ha llevado en su corazon toda su vida.
Elizabeth C. Ramirez and Catherine Casiano bring together a
collection of plays and performance pieces by innovative Latina
playwrights. Surveying Latina theatre in the United States from the
1980s to the twenty-first century, the editors present works
displaying a variety of forms, themes, and genres, expanding the
field of Latina theatre while situating it in the larger spectrum
of American stage and performance studies. Ramirez and Casiano
provide historical context and a production history for each work
and a biography of, and artistic statement from, each playwright.
Contributors: Yareli Arizmendi, Josefina Baez, The Colorado
Sisters, Migdalia Cruz, Evelina Fernandez, Cherrie Moraga, Carmen
Pelaez, Carmen Rivera, Celia H. Rodriguez, Diane Rodriguez, and
Milcha Sanchez-Scott. The volume also includes commentary by Kathy
Perkins and Caridad Svich.
TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING and THE DOWNFALL OF RAFAEL TRUJILLO - two
plays by award-winning playwright Carmen Rivera - that chronicle
with roaring energy, power and theatricality the lives of Dominican
dictator Trujillo, and a family torn apart by forces beyond their
control. With an introduction by scholar Jason Ramirez.
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