Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays

✍ Scribed by Rivera, José

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.
• ISBN: 1559367288

✦ Synopsis

Praise for José Rivera: "Even if you've never seen Puerto Rico or grown old, you sit there ruminating on love, sacrifice, and betrayal."— Chicago Tribune , on Boleros for the Disenchanted "Teasingly engrossing. . . . Vividly written. . . . An intriguing and evocative drama."— The San Francisco Chronicle , on Brainpeople "Mr. Rivera's intimate play . . . uses historical fact as a frame to pose intriguing questions about what might have happened."— The New York Times , on School of the Americas Three new works from José Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. Boleros for the Disenchanted is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With Brainpeople , Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a post-apocalyptic setting who feast on a freshly slaughtered tiger. In School of the Americas , he imagines Che Guevara's encounter—more passionate than political—with a young schoolteacher in Bolivia. Also included is his one-act penned in protest of California's Proposition 8, Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words. José Rivera 's works include the plays References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot , Marisol , Cloud Tectonics , and Sueno (an adaptation of Life Is a Dream ), as well as the Oscar-nominated screenplay to The Motorcycle Diaries. **

✦ Subjects

Puerto Rico