A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes; who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes; author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner; is known for her plays that traverse cultural; spiritual; and aesthetic borders.In The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes; Anne Garciacute;a-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century; offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright.The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prizendash;winner Quiara Alegriacute;a Hudes; Obie Awardndash;winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacariacute;as; resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington; DC; Elaine Romero; member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago; Illinois; and Cusi Cram; company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City.Using four key conceptsmdash;cultural multiplicity; supernatural intervention; Latina identity; and theatrical experimentationmdash;Garciacute;a-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader; simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornesrsquo;s legacy; these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.
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