1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance
The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure.
This collection draws on fifty interdisciplinary contributions written by some of the leading Latine theatre and performance scholars and practitioners in the United States to highlight evolving and recurring strategies of world making, activism, and resistance taken by Latine culture makers to gain political agency on and off the stage. The project reveals the continued growth of Latine theatre and performance through chapters covering but not limited to playwriting, casting practices, representation, training, wrestling with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity, theatre for young audiences, community empowerment, and the market forces that govern the US theatre industry. This book enters conversations in performance studies, ethnic studies, American studies, and Latina/e/o/x studies by taking up performance scholar Diana Taylor’s call to consider the ways that “embodied and performed acts generate, record, and transmit knowledge.”
This collection is an essential resource for students, scholars, and theatremakers seeking to explore, understand, and advance the huge range and significance of Latine performance.
Part 1: Latine Identities
1. Make Your Heart Your Face
Juliette Carrillo
2. Translating the Literal and Metaphorical Languages of Theatrical Make-believe
Guillermo Reyes
3. Down the Yellow Brick Road to Querencia: Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border
Kristin Leahey
4. Laughter for Liberation: Latine Comedy in the U.S. American Theatre
Amelia Acosta Powell
5. Luisa Capetillo: A Beautiful Anarchy
Magdalena Gómez
6. A Good Light: Making the Most of Our Spotlights
Amparo Garcia-Crow
7. Ode to Identity
Daniel Jáquez
8. The Struggles and Successes of Building an Inclusive Arts/Activist Community on the Border
Samuel Valdez
9. Discussing Intersectionality of AfroLatinidad in Entertainment and Performance
Daphnie Sicre
10. Permission
Elaine Romero
Part 2: History/Presence
11. Latinx Presence in New York’s Downtown Arts Scenes 1963-1975
Eric Meyer García
12. “Quinto Festival de Teatro Chicano- Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano: Un Continente, Una Cultura Por Un Teatro Libre y Para la Liberacion:” The Vision, the Plan, the Event
Alma Martinez
13. From Latin Cigar Factory Workers/Actors to Latine Pulitzers: Latine Theatre in Florida
Lillian Manzor
14. Latine Theatre in Florida
Lillian Manzor
15. La Rose: Broadway, 1906 and San Juan Bautista, 1981
Ricardo Ernesto Rocha
16. Fornésian Dreamscapes: Navigating Queer World-Making
Melody Contreras
17. Su Teatro: Original Sinners and Institution Builders
Anthony J. Garcia
18. Pregones/PRTT: Lighting the Spark — For the Love of Theatre
Rosalba Rolón
19. He Is the Man that I Am: Nightlife and Legacy in Marga Gomez’s Latin Standards
Javier Luis Hurtado
20. “Why do we exist?” Theatre and Placemaking within Southern Arizona’s Sonoran Heritage
Marc David Pinate
Part 3: Communities/ Next Generation
21. Creating a Path in Higher Education When There is None
Elizabeth C. Ramírez
22. Considering Diasporican Drama
Jon D. Rossini
23. Our Ritual, Our Process: A Conversation with Migdalia Cruz
Marissa Chibás
24. Topology and the Dramatic Writer
Georgina Escobar
25. Resisting Relapse: Positive Identity and Empowerment for Youth on the Frontera
Adriana Dominguez
26. The New Old Sound: A worksheet manifesto
Beto O’Byrne
27. Yana Wana: A Dramatic Call to Action for Indigenous Latinx Youth in Texas
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce and María F. Rocha
28. The Stranger and the City: Theatre, Democracy, Inclusion
Ana Candida Carneiro
29. Articulating A Complete Life: The Queer Pastorelas of Teatro Alebrijes
Javier Luis Hurtado
Part 4: World Making
30. Mi Cuenta
Krysta Gonzales
31. Jornaleros: Art, Labor and Drama
Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez
32. Material Bodies and Object Vitality: Octavio Solis’s Don Quixote and Quixote Nuevo
Carla Della Gatta
33. Racial Masquerade and Black Latinidades in Rachel Lynett’s Black Mexican
Jade Power-Sotomayor
34. Tú eres mi otro yo: The Ecodramaturgy of José Cruz González
Theresa J. May
35. Dancing Migration: Trespassing, Borders, and Precarious Crossings in Silvana Cardell’s Supper, People on the Move
Amelia Rose Estrada
36. Testimonio: Exploring the Latinx Weave in Theatre
Rose Cano
37. El Silencio: A Chicana Perspective on Contemporary Latinx Theatre and Performance as Testimonio
Elisa Gonzales
38. Erased or Stereotyped: Latine Bisexual Representation in the American Theatre
Maria-Tania Bandes B. Weingarden
39. Sonic Resistance and Resilience in Teatro Luna’s Talking While Female and Other Acts
Melissa Huerta
Part 5: Structures
40. The Orange and the Brick: A story about US Latine playwriting
Caridad Svich
41. Creating Opportunities: A Latinx Playwright’s Journey
Diana Burbano
42. San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival
Maria Patrice Amon
43. Circles Rising: Latina Directors in Community
Estefanía Fadul
44. South Texas Playwrights
Jerry Ruiz
45. Latinx Theatre: The New Frontier
Henry Godinez
46. Crafting Culture on Chicago’s Stages
Priscilla Maria Page
47. Familism at Work in Latine Theates
Olga Sanchez Saltveit
48. Latinx TikTok: Rasquache Theatre Goes Digitial
Trevor Boffone
49. The Graying of the Field: How I Survived the Transition from ‘New Dramatist’ to one Who Is No Longer New
Migdalia Cruz
50. A Play is a Poem Standing Up
Marisela Treviño Orta
Biography
Noe Montez is Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University, USA.
Olga Sanchez Saltveit is Assistant Professor of Theatre, Middlebury College, USA; the Co-Artistic and Producing Director, Dogteam Theatre Project; and Artistic Director Emerita, Milagro.
"The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance is essential reading for those who desire to delve into the breadth and depth of Latine theatre and performance. This remarkable volume offers an abundant array of aesthetically and culturally diverse contributions from foundational, established and emerging voices in the field. May the global theatre community engage this significant archive and resource for years to come!"
Anne García-Romero, University of Notre Dame, USA
"Montez and Sanchez Saltveit’s masterfully-edited volume is a treasury of insights into contemporary Latine theatre. This collection of essays by scholars and artists is an intergenerational conversation about Latine theatrical practices that reflect on and refract contemporary debates about identity, politics and culture."
Patricia A. Ybarra, Brown University, USA
"This dynamic collection brings together the revelatory work of a wide array of Latine artists coupled by the historical, theoretical, and academic analysis of our best scholars. By celebrating the voice and of Latine artists and the insight of our best contemporary scholars, Dr. Sanchez Saltveit and Dr. Montez have created a vital gift for our field."
Karen Zacarías, Playwright and Core Founder, Latinx Theatre Commons, USA
