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Holy Terrors presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America's foremost contemporary women theatre and performance artists. Many of the pieces—including one-act plays, manifestos, and lyrics—appear in English for the first time. From Griselda Gambaro, Argentina's most widely recognized playwright, to such renowned performers as Brazil's Denise Stoklos and Mexico's Jesusa Rodríguez, these women are involved in some of Latin America's most important aesthetic and political movements. Of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds, they come from across Latin America—Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Peru, and Cuba. This volume is generously illustrated with over seventy images. A number of the performance pieces are complemented by essays providing context and analysis.The performance pieces in Holy Terrors are powerful testimonies to the artists' political and personal struggles. These women confront patriarchy, racism, and repressive government regimes and challenge brutality and corruption through a variety of artistic genres. Several have formed theatre collectives—among them FOMMA (a Mayan women's theatre company in Chiapas) and El Teatro de la máscara in Colombia. Some draw from cabaret and 'frivolous' theatre traditions to create intense and humorous performances that challenge church and state. Engaging in self-mutilation and abandoning traditional dress, others use their bodies as the platforms on which to stage their defiant critiques of injustice. Holy Terrors is a unique English-language presentation of some of Latin America's fiercest, most provocative art.
Contributors
Sabina Berman
Tania Bruguera
Petrona de la Cruz Cruz
Diamela Eltit
Griselda Gambaro
Astrid Hadad
Teresa Hernández
Rosa Luisa Márquez
Teresa Ralli
Diana Raznovich
Jesusa Rodríguez
Denise Stoklos
Katia Tirado
Ema Villanueva
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Unimagined Communities / Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino 1
Diana Raznovich (Argentina) 25
Manifesto 2000 of Feminine Humor / Translated by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio and Shanna Lorenz 27
From the Waist Down / Translated by Shanna Lorenz 43
What is Diana Raznovich Laughing At? / Diana Taylor 73
Griselda Gambaro (Argentina) 93
Strip / Translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz 95
Diamela Eltit (Chile) 105
Excerpts from Lumperica (E. Luminata): "From Her Forgetfulness Project" and "Dress Rehearsal" / Translated by Ronald Christ 107
Diamela Eltit: Performing Action in Dictatorial Chile/ Robert Neustadt 117
Denise Stoklos (Brazil) 135
Selections from Writings on Essential Theatre/ Translated by Diana Taylor 137
Casa / Translated by Denise Stoklos and Diana Taylor 140
The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia: Denise Stoklos at Play with the Hysterical-Historical / Leslie Damasceno 152
Astrid Hadad (Mexico) 179
Selected Lyrics and Monologue Fragments / Translated by Roselyn Costantino and Lorna Scott 181
Politics and Culture in a Diva's Diversion: The Body of Astrid Hadad in Performance / Roselyn Costantino 187
Jesusa Rodriguez (Mexico) 209
Sor Juana in Prison: A Virtual Pageant Play / Translated by Diana Taylor with Marlene Ramirez-Cancio 211
Nahuatlismo: The Aztec Acting Method / Translated by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio 227
The Conquest According to La Malinche / Translated by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio 231
Excerpts from "Genesis," "Barbie: The Revenge of the Devil,' and "Censorship: The Bald Rat in the Garbage" / Translated by Roselyn Costantino 235
Katia Tirado and Ema Villanueva (Mexico) 245
Wrestling the Phallus, Resisting Amnesia: The Body Politics of Chilanga Performance Artists / Antonio Prieto Stambaugh 247
Sabina Berman (Mexico) 275
The Agony of Ecstasy: Four One-Act Plays on a Single Theme / Translated by Adam Versenyi 279
Petrona de la Cruz Cruz (Mexico) 291
A Desperate Woman: A Play in Two Acts / Translated by Shanna Lorenz 293
Eso si pasa aqui: Indigenous Women Performing Revoultions in Mayan Chiapas / Teresa Marrero 311
Teatro la Mascara (Colombia) 331
Teatro la mascara: Twenty-Eight Years of Invisibilized Theatre / Marlene Ramirez-Cancio 333
Teresa Ralli (Peru) 353
Fragments of Memory / Translated by Margaret Carson 355
Excerpts from Antigona / Jose Watanabe, Translated by Margaret Carson 365
Rosa Luisa Marquez (Puerto Rico) 371
Between Theatre and Performance / Translation and photos by Miguel Villefane 373
Teresa Hernandez (Puerto Rico) 385
How Complex Being Is, or The Complex of Being / Translated by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio 387
Teresa Hernandez vs. the Puerto Rican Complex / Vivian Martinez Tabares, Translated by Margaret Carson 394
Tania Bruguera (Cuba) 399
Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt / Jose Munoz 401
Selected Bibliography 417
Contributors 441
