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list price: $16.95
edition:Paperback
category: Drama
published: Sep 2012
ISBN:9780889227057
publisher:
Talonbooks
Description
Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor’s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; ‘La Bamba’ and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American made-for-TV drug-wars movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers comparative histories, examines myths and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing.
Cast of one man.
Contributor Notes
Guillermo Verdecchia
Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama, fiction and film; a director, dramaturge, actor and translator whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens and radios across the country and around the globe. He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Drama, a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, a recipient of Dora and Jessie Awards and sundry film festival awards for his film Crucero/Crossroads.
Awards
- Winner, Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
- Winner, Governor General’s Award for Drama
Editorial Reviews
“A witty and intelligently lively deconstruction of the Latin American experience.”
—Books in Canada
“By turns funny and profound and often both at once.”
—Toronto Star
“Funny, fast-paced, smart, and provocative.”
—Globe and Mail
“An intelligent, heartfelt take on the Latin American immigrant experience in North America.”
—Globe and Mail
