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Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights
provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning
playwright and instructor. This book incorporates craft lessons by
contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance for new and
emerging playwrights. The author takes readers through the entire
creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue and
silent moments to analyzing elements of well-made plays and
creating an atmospheric environment. Each chapter is followed by
writing prompts and pro tips that address unique facets of the
conversation about the art and craft of playwriting. The book also
includes information on the business of playwriting and a
recommended reading list of published classic and contemporary
plays, providing all the tools to successfully transform an idea
into a script, and a script into a performance. Playwriting with
Purpose gives writers and students of playwriting hands-on lessons,
artistic concepts, and business savvy to succeed in today's theater
industry.
Drama / 4m, 3f Set in the 1970s on the Texas border separating the
United States and Mexico, Lydia is an intense, lyrical, and magical
new play. The Flores family welcomes Lydia, an undocumented maid,
into their El Paso home to care for their daughter Ceci, who was
tragically disabled in a car accident on the eve of her
quinceanera, her fifteenth birthday. Lydia's immediate and
seemingly miraculous bond with the girl sets the entire family on a
mysterious and shocking journey of discovery. Lydia is an
unflinching and deeply emotional portrait of a Mexican immigrant
family caught in a web of dark secrets.
A crime saga about the Santos Family Law Practice in El Paso of the
1980's, loosely based on the Chagra brothers' killing of Judge John
Wood. Drugs, gambling, and trafficking fuel the law office of
Santos & Santos, and the brothers are quick to incorporate the
younger brother after the death of their father. He questions his
relationship to his heritage as he sees his brothers so eagerly
trying to live the life of the "American." When one of the brothers
is tried fo
Drama Characters: 2 male, 5 female Winner of the 2003 National
Latino Playwriting Award A dark work about self-knowledge and the
nature of evil, where the devil lives in a godless world. Lee,
accompanied by his photographer girlfriend Dru, arrives in El Paso
to interview Mateo, (a convicted murderer recently released), over
a period of a few days. During the intense interview process, Lee
so empathizes with his subject's life in the past that he merges
his own past with it in order to reenact it. The bloody conclusion
draws upon the dangers of defining the nature of evil.
Dramatic Comedy / 6m, 3f Inspired by Life is a Dream, the towering
achievement of Spanish drama, Dreamlandia explores the terrain
between illusion and reality. Set in the borderlands between Mexico
and Texas, this haunting new play vibrates with the clash of
cultures, NAFTA, narcotics, and illegal immigration. In an
everchanging world, family, cultural and sexual identities collide.
"In Teatro Vista's provocative staging of Solis's latest work,
Marquez meets Beckett in a surreal, tragicomic telenovela. Here the
U.S.-Mexico border isn't so much a patrolled place as a state of
mind." - Time Out Chicago
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Edward III (Paperback)
William Shakespeare, Octavio Solis
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R260
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Edward III comes to life in a new version by playwright Octavio
Solis. Written after England's victory over the Spanish Armada in
1588, Edward III follows the exploits of King Edward III and his
son Edward, the Black Prince of Wales. England dominates on the
battlefield as the play explores questions of kinghood and chivalry
through the actions of King Edward and his son. Octavio Solis's
translation of the play provides all of the complexity and richness
of the original while renewing the allusions and metaphors lost
through time. This translation of Edward III was written as part of
the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which
commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays.
These translations present work from "The Bard" in language
accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of
Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of
contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from
diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the
twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for
the first time in print-a new First Folio for a new era.
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights
provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning
playwright and instructor. This book incorporates craft lessons by
contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance for new and
emerging playwrights. The author takes readers through the entire
creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue and
silent moments to analyzing elements of well-made plays and
creating an atmospheric environment. Each chapter is followed by
writing prompts and pro tips that address unique facets of the
conversation about the art and craft of playwriting. The book also
includes information on the business of playwriting and a
recommended reading list of published classic and contemporary
plays, providing all the tools to successfully transform an idea
into a script, and a script into a performance. Playwriting with
Purpose gives writers and students of playwriting hands-on lessons,
artistic concepts, and business savvy to succeed in today's theater
industry.
Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of
the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed! The New York Times directs
readers to Retablos if you want to know "what's life really like on
the Mexican border." "Solis grew up just a mile from the Rio Grande
in El Paso, Texas, and he tells stories about his childhood and
coming of age, including his parents migration to the United States
from Mexico, his first encounter with racism and finding a Mexican
migrant girl hiding in the cotton fields."-Concepcion de Leon, New
York Times Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline
vignettes-a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico
border. More praise for Octavio Solis's Retablos: "This is American
and Mexican literature a stone's throw from the always hustling El
Paso border."-Gary Soto, author of The Elements of San Joaquin "We
inhabit a border world rich in characters, lush with details,
playful and poignant, a border that refutes the stereotypes and
divisions smaller minds create. Solis reminds us that sometimes the
most profound truths are best told with crafted fictions--and he is
a master at it."-Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents " ... it's hard not to consider the border itself as
a representation of a 'terrible rift,' a split between homes,
communities, identities, generations. While reading this generous
and eye-opening account, it's easy to see how, for the country at
large, the rift has only deepened."-Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed Best
Books of Fall 2018 "Landing somewhere between Neil Gaiman and Juan
Rulfo, Solis secularizes the mythological by turning men and women
into saintly figures-like their criada [maid], Consuelo, and a
white priest who shows his family empathy-and monsters: border
agents who take his friends away and school bullies."-Michael Adam
Carroll, The Millions "There has never been a border book like
Retablos, a collection of smoldering epiphanies suffering the
baptizing waters of recall. . . ."-Roberto Ontiveros, San Antonio
Current "The book is rendered in tight, stand-alone recollections
rich with poetry and honesty. . . . If retablos are offerings, then
Solis' book is a gift of memory, not always pleasant, but always
true."-Beatriz Terrazas, Dallas Morning News "The experience of
reading his tightly contained memories in succession is a bit like
drawing old coins up from a wishing well. Filtered through veils of
distance and time, these scenes and reflections are wonderful and
weird flashes of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood in the
life of this particular Mexican American boy."-- Sophie Haigney,
San Francisco Chronicle "Octavio Solis' Retablos recounts a
'beautiful, messy' youth on the border. Though its title evokes
Mexican folk art, Retablos is closer in effect to that of French
pointillism. Its small dabs of vivid color produce a brilliant
cumulative effect."-Steven G. Kellman, The Texas Observer "In this
debut memoir, playwright Solis delivers top-notch vignettes of his
youth with riveting imagery and empathy, recounting--and
embellishing, he says--memories of growing up brown in El Paso,
Tex. . . . These brilliantly told stories of missteps and
redemption are a treat."--Publishers Weekly ". . .what struck me
most about each chapter was Solis's ability to plant a specific
image in your mind. With every retablo, you can see in ferocious
detail exactly what the author wants you to see, like a special
kind of telepathy. I found myself wanting to paint them."-Caitlyn
Reynolds, The Los Angeles Review of Books "In all, a beautiful,
evocative, and timely expression of border culture for every
collection."--Sara Martinez, Booklist "In this coming-of-age
memoir, a playwright illuminates the culture of the El Paso border
as he perceived it when he was young. . . . An intriguing work that
transcends category, drawing from facts but reading like
fiction."--Kirkus Reviews
This volume collects three of US Latino playwright Octavio Solis'
most exciting plays about US-Mexico border relations. With a
preface by Douglas Langworthy, this is an essential volume to
deepen understanding of not only US Latino and Chicano theatre but
American theatre as a whole.
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