ANTIGONE PROJECT is a play in five parts by Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, and Caridad Svich that reconsiders the story of Antigone from a variety of rich and radical perspectives. With a preface by dramatist Lisa Schlesinger and an introduction by classics scholar Marianne McDonald, this is a unique addition to contemporary drama.

Antigone Project (Dreaming the Americas)

Literature & Fiction

Lynn Nottage

Caridad Svich

Tanya Barfield

Karen Hartman

Chiori Miyagawa

Contemporary

Nopassport

Against the ceaseless watch of a dirty sea, two lovers named Mori and Maura try to survive against all odds. A poetic, hip-hop inspired drama of epic love, immigration, sexual tourism, and globalisation by Caridad Svich, one of the US' most daring Latina dramatists. This volume features an introduction by eminent critic Marvin Carlson and an afterword by Latina Studies scholar Tamara Underiner. This play originally premiered in Cologne, Germany in 2007.

The Tropic of X (Dreaming the Americas)

Svich, Caridad

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.

Octavio Solis: The River Plays (El Otro, Dreamlandia, Bethlehem) (Dreaming the Americas)

Solis, Octavio

Three of US-based Romanian playwright Saviana Stanescu's most daring, comic plays are collected in this volume with an introduction by John Clinton Eisner. Waxing West, Lenin's Shoe and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills are exciting new plays for the US and world stage.

Saviana Stanescu: The New York Plays

Stanescu, Saviana

EL GRITO DEL BRONX &amp; OTHER PLAYS collects for the first time three plays and one song-poem by celebrated Nuyorican poet-playwright Migdalia Cruz. With an introduction by eminent Latino scholar Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez and afterword by theatre scholar Priscilla Page, this is an invaluable addition to the field of US Latina/o drama and all of American theatre.

El Grito del Bronx & Other Plays (Dreaming the Americas)

Cruz, Migdalia

NO ROOSTERS IN THE DESERT is a new play by Kara Hartzler based on field work by Anna Ochoa O'Leary about the plight of four women who cross the US-Mexico border at great risk and sacrifice. This play was originally commissioned by Borderlands Theater in Tucson, Arizona.

No Roosters in the Desert (Nopassport Press: Dreaming the Americas)

Hartzler, Kara

A play by Lisa Ramirez which charts the lives of nannies, mothers and children trying to get by in a complicated social-political matrix that makes the responsibility of parenting and child care a difficult emotionally tangled legal and moral web. A tale of daily triumphs by a US Latina solo performer and writer whose work has been championed by Eve Ensler.

Exit Cuckoo (nanny in motherland)

Ramírez, Dr. Lisa

AMERICA DREAMING is a collection of distinctive plays by playwright Chiori Miyagawa with an introduction by dramaurge Emily Morse that illuminates a unique theatrical vision of how America dreams itself anew.

America Dreaming and Other Plays

Miyagawa, Chiori

American Jornalero: This new play by playwright Ed Cardona Jr., premiered at Intar in New York City in May 2012, focuses on the plight of a group of day laborers/jornaleros in Queens. A portrait of the intersecting transient lives in the search for a daily wage in a land of many compromised American dreams. A compassionate, clear-eyed and illuminating look at lives and people too often ignored in the Us landscape, American Jornalero is a vibrant play.

AMERICAN JORNALERO

Cardona Jr., Ed

United States

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