These three plays by US Latina dramatist Anne Garcia Romero offer striking and sensual explorations of identity. A welcome addition to a growing body of US Latina literature for theatre and performance

Anne Garcia-Romero: Collected Plays

Literature & Fiction

García-Romero, Anne

Contemporary

NoPassport Press

A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is known for her plays that traverse cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic borders. In The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes, Anne García-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century, offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright. The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award–winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. Using four key concepts—cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identity, and theatrical experimentation—García-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader, simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornes’s legacy, these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.

The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes

History & Criticism

University of Arizona Press

   “Today and pre-1492 Spain come into collision in a twist on a Romeo & Juliet story (here Latina Catholic meets devout Muslim) in the highly poetic and beguiling PALOMA by Anne García-Romero.” Ross Haarstad, Ithaca Times   “At its core, PALOMA is a love story. But Paloma also touches on topics such as religious conflict, coexistence and peace. They are noble ideas presented in cleverly poetic metaphors… García-Romero defies the usual gender dynamic with a female pursuer and a reticent male, and it proves a good decision.” Graham Gentz, New Mexico Daily Lobo   “The evolving love between Ibrahim and Paloma is tender and true. Likewise, the underlying difficulties are also authentic… This is a powerful play that gets under the skin of religious tensions.” Rob Spiegel, Talkin’ Broadway

Paloma

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

In a Spanglish speaking land, Juanita disguises herself as a man to escape the wrath of her lover Ignacio's father. Masquerading as a 'new' Don Juan, she careens through the city and seduces Alejandra, a wealthy art collector, Tomás, a leather bar patron and Beatríz, an innocent, society bride, who all fall instantly in love with him/her. Juanita's romp soon lands her squarely at the feet of Don Juan himself as she struggles to find true love.

Juanita's Statue

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Anne Garcia-Romero: Collected Plays

The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes

Paloma

Juanita's Statue