Teatro Chicana

by Garcia, Laura E.; Gutierrez, Sandra M.; Nunez, Felicitas; Broyles-Gonzalez, Yolanda

• ISBN13: 9780292717435
• ISBN10: 0292717431
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement. In this collective memoir, seventeen women who were a part of Teatro de las Chicanas (later known as Teatro Laboral and Teatro Raiacute;ces) come together to share why they joined the theatre and how it transformed their lives. Teatro Chicana tells the story of this troupe through chapters featuring the history and present-day story of each of the main actors and writers, as well as excerpts from the group's materials and seven of their original short scripts.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Timeline

Introduction

Recuerdos / Memoirs

Delia Ravelo

Peggy Garcia

Laura E. Garcia

Gloria Bartlett Heredia

Teresa Oyos

Kathy Requejo

Clara Cuevas

Virginia Rodriguez Balanoff

Sandra M. Gutierrez

Margarita Carrillo

Hilda Rodriguez

Delia Rodriguez

Guadalupe Beltran

Maria Juarez

Gloria Escalera

Evelyn Cruz

Felicitas Nunez

Conclusion

Actos/Scripts

Chicana Goes to College Bronca So Ruff, So Tuff Salt of the Earth E.T.--The Alien Anti-Nuke Commercial

Archie Bunker Goes to El Salvador Addendum: Reunion of Teatro de las

Chicanas Addendum: By laws of Teatro Raices

Key Spanish Terms

Biographies

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