Fronteras Americanas: American Borders - Verdecchia, Guillermo

As New: Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence, and wit, this play 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: Simon Bolivar and Speedy Gonzales; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; "La Bamba" and Pacido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American made-for-TV drug-war movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and cliches, offers comparative histories, examines myths and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing.

As New
Paperback
Talonbooks
1997
Vancouver, BC