Out of the Fringe

There is a new generation of Latina/o dramatists afoot. According to Caridad Svich, editor of Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performance, "There is a wave of dramatists, storytellers and poets, creating work intensely personal and idiosyncratic, eerie and lyrical, metaphysical and emotive. Flourishing within the margins of an already marginalized theatrical environment, they align themselves with resurgent poetry and the spoken-word movement, with alternative music and literature scenes; their work is bred on the economics of poetry and the nurturing of their work outside official venues."Collected here are 10 beautifully inventive, shape-changing, form-molding, poetic masterworks of the American theatre: Luis Alfaro, Straight as a Line

Coco Fusco/Nao Bustamante, Stuff

Migdalia Cruz, Fur

Nilo Cruz, Night Train to Bolina

Naomi Iizuka, Skin

Oliver Mayer, Ragged Time

Pedro Monge-Rafuls, Trash

Cherrie Moraga, The Hungry Woman: Mexican Medea

Monica Palacios, Greetings from a Queer Senorita

Caridad Svich, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues