Teatro Chicana

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

• ISBN13: 9780292717442
• ISBN10: 029271744X
• Format: Paperback
• 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

ntroduction

Recuerdos / Memoirs

Conclusion

Actos/Scripts

Chicana Goes to College

BroncaSo Ruff, So Tuff

Salt of the EarthE.T.--The AlienAnti-Nuke Commercial

Archie Bunker Goes to El Salvador

Addendum: Reunion of Teatro de las Chicanas

Addendum: Bylaws of Teatro Rafces

Key Spanish Terms

Biographies

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