During the advent of Chicano teatro; dozens of groups sprang up across the country in Chicano/a communities. Since then; teatristas have been leading voices in the creation and production of plays touching minds and hearts that galvanize audiences to action.Barrio Dreams is the first book to collect the work of one of Arizonarsquo;s foremost teatristas; playwright Silviana Wood. During her decades-long involvement in theater; Wood forged a reputation as a playwright; actor; director; and activist. Her works form a testimonio of Chicana life; steeped in art; politics; and the borderlands. Woodrsquo;s plays challenge; question; and incite women to consider their lot in life. She ruptures stereotypes and raises awareness of social issues via humor and with an emphasis on the use of the physical body on stage.The play Una vez; en un barrio de suentilde;os . . . offers a glimpse into familiar terrainmdash;the barrio and its dwellersmdash;in three actos. In Amor de hija; a fraught mother-daughter relationship in contemporary working-class Arizona is dealt an additional blow as the family faces Alzheimerrsquo;s disease. In the tragedy A Drunkardrsquo;s Tale of Melted Wings and Memories; and in the trilingual (Spanish; English; and Yaqui) tragicomedy Yo; Casimiro Flores; characters love; live; die; travel through time and space; and visit the afterlife. And in Anhelos por Oaxaca; a grandfather travels back in time through flashbacks; as he and his grandson travel through homelands from Arizona to Oaxaca.Part of Woodrsquo;s genius is the way she portrays life in what Gloria Anzalduacute;a called ldquo;el mundo zurdo;rdquo; that space inhabited by the people of color; the poor; the female; and the outsiders. It is a place for the atravesados; the odd; the different; those who do not fit the mainstream. The people who inhabit Woodrsquo;s plays are common folkmdash;janitors; mothers; grandmothers; and teenagersmdash;hardworking people who; in one way or another; have made their way in life and who embody life in the barrio.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Nice overview of the current Delaware beer sceneBy Maurice AbbottI enjoyed this book by Tony Russo. It gave some history of DE beer but really explained the recent resurgence of breweries and how they have evolved.
