Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States

doi:10.1017/9781009168359.046

45 - Cuban Theater of the Diaspora in the United States

from Part V - Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024

Lillian Manzor

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Vicky Unruh and

Jacqueline Loss

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Vicky Unruh: Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Jacqueline Loss: Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

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Drawing on work by numerous playwrights, this chapter provides a detailed overview of the theater of the Cuban diaspora in the US, including extensive contributions to elaborate theater scenarios and initiatives since the 1960s, and addressing some playwrights, like María Irene Fornés (a mentor to numerous US Cubans) and Nilo Cruz, who have been instrumental within US American drama as a whole. The chapter organizes its account of many well-established theater groups and ensembles; theatrical venues and performance spaces; festivals and regular events; and key playwrights, directors, and mentors into those linked to New York and those anchored in Miami, and also includes the work of a new generation of millennial playwrights, most of whom were born in the US but who continue to evoke in their work complex, sometimes painful, connections to the island.

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Cuban theater in the US US Cuban playwrights and directors US Cuban theater groups and performance venues US Cuban theater in New York US Cuban theater in Miami US Cuban millennial playwrights

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Information: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 707 - 724

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Print publication year: 2024

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