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

POPULAR FORMS FOR A RADICAL THEATRE is a collection of articles and interviews edited by playwrights Caridad Svich and Sarah... More > Ruhl exploring populism, theatre practice, and radicalism. The book includes essays by Todd London, W. David Hancock, Diane Paulus, Aleks Sierz, Will Eno, Jonathan Kalb, Michael Friedman and interviews with Eugenio Barba, Dijana Miloseviv, Nina Steiger, Scott Graham, Richard Maxwell and Brian Mendes. A vital and provocative collection for students, practitioners, and scholars in theatre and performance. < Less

A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK AND OTHER PLAYS collects three fascinating, political plays by accomplished US... More > playwright Kia Corthron. The book also includes a personal essay on Liberia and its political landscape as well as a preface by Michael John Garces, artistic director of Cornerstone Theatre in Los Angeles, and an interview by playwright Kara Lee Corthron. < Less

WOMAN KILLER is US-based Asian dramatist Chiori Miyagawa's take on an ancient story of revenge, murder and ghosts. With an... More > introduction by feminist scholar Sharon Friedman and afterword by scholar Martin Harries, Miyagawa's WOMAN KILLER is a porvocative text that explores the psychology of a society broken by lies and betrayals. < Less

This play by US Latina playwright Caridad Svich was finalist for the 2005 PEN Award in Drama. This new edition features an... More > introduction by Amy Littlefield. A rave fable inspired by Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis, this play with music and video spins Iphigenia into dangerous orbit through an un-named Latin American country as she journeys through a meta-hell where she finds her body embraced and destroyed by a rock star named Achilles, and discovers she cannot escape a destiny set forth by myths ancient and modern. < Less

A play by Lisa Ramirez which charts the lives of nannies, mothers and children trying to get by in a complicated... More > 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. < Less

Envisioning the Americas: Latina/o Theatre & Performance gathers five plays by five of the US' most daring Latina/o... More > dramatists: Migdalia Cruz, John Jesurun, Oliver Mayer, Alejandro Morales, and Anne Garcia-Romero. With a preface by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and multiple award-winning playwright José Rivera, edited with an introduction by Caridad Svich. A sensual, provocative collection destined to stir things up theatrically in American theatre.

Cigarettes and Moby-Dick by Migdalia Cruz
Liz One by John Jesurun
Dias y Flores by Oliver Mayer
Marea by Alejandro Morales
and
Land of Benjamin Franklin
by Anne García-Romero

Introduced and Edited by Caridad Svich < Less

Two boys emerge from the sea and become engulfed in a world of savage longing and desire. Drawing on the Greek myth of... More > Medea, this sharply crafted play examines the role of displaced persons searching for home amidst a culture of brutality. The stylized, poetic language of US Latina playwright Caridad Svich's theatrical landscape carves out each moment with a disconcerting precision. < Less

This play by US Latina playwright Caridad Svich was finalist for the 2005 PEN Award in Drama. This new edition features an... More > introduction by Amy Littlefield. A rave fable inspired by Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis, this play with music and video spins Iphigenia into dangerous orbit through an un-named Latin American country as she journeys through a meta-hell where she finds her body embraced and destroyed by a rock star named Achilles, and discovers she cannot escape a destiny set forth by myths ancient and modern. < Less

Against the ceaseless watch of a dirty sea,
two lovers named Mori and Maura try to survive
against all odds. A poetic,... More > 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. < Less