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Lynne Alverez: Collected Plays
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #933783 in Books
- Published on: 1998-10
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Alvarez was born of Argentinean parents in Portland, Oregon, but was raised in Michigan, and as an adult lived for a while in Mexico. Introducing her plays, Constance Congden quips that Alvarez speaks English with a Michigan accent and Spanish with a Mexican accent. The same could be said of the plays. Some--most notably the moody meditation on love, art, and power, The Guitarron (1983)--follow in the magical realist tradition of Garcia Lorca and JoseRivera. Others are written in the mythic realist manner favored by playwrights like Sam Shepard. All of them, however, feature Alvarez's loving, playful use of language--even her prose sounds like poetry--and her dead-on takes on human nature. The earliest plays in this collection were produced in the early '80s, the latest in the early '90s. Jack Helbig
