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Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 5m
José Rivera
"It's a play about a bright, Americanized son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents, a break that can't be made until the assimilated hero learns to accept the ethnic heritage that he has spent his life trying to suppress."
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"It's a play about a bright, Americanized son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents, a break that can't be made until the assimilated hero learns to accept the ethnic heritage that he has spent his life trying to suppress. The play's vigor derives from the firm delineation of the daily life of the Iglesias, who live in a dilapidated house bereft of a phone, water and a working furnace. In the hands of a less assured writer these squabbles could easily look like ridiculous Latin caricature. Here they become entirely credible articulations of the conflicts within a family that no longer shares a common tongue." - New York Times
"A fine ... sensitively written ethnic drama." - Other Stages
The first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award, for The Motorcycle Diaries, José Rivera is also the author of 26 full-length plays, including the Obie Award-winning Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, both produced at the Public Thea ...
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