Golden Tongues

Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles

Luis Alfaro, Boni B. Alvarez, Madhuri Shekar , Mary Lyon Kamitaki

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Methuen Drama
09 January 2025

Plays & playscripts; Hispanic & Latino studies

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections

A first-of-its-kind anthology that

explores adaptations of 17th-century Hispanic comedia within

contemporary Los Angeles theater.

Performed outdoors for audiences of all

classes and genders, comedias questioned orthodox ideologies and power

systems of the 17th-century Hispanic world: 400 years later, these

stories are still being used to call for change, but within modern-day

America.

Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los

Angeles explores how adaptations of source texts by authors

such as Lope de Vega, Calderón, and María de Zayas harness their energy and

themes. Touching on key modern issues like the intersection of power and

sexuality, gentrification, and Black identities, this anthology bridges the

gap between the classical and the contemporary.

Featuring seven plays, each with an

introduction that situates the adaptation in relation to its source and

contextualizes its performance, this play collection both highlights the

longevity of Hispanic classic theater and celebrates the diversity of modern

day performance.

By: Luis Alfaro, Boni B. Alvarez, Madhuri Shekar, Mary Lyon Kamitaki, Julie Taiwo Quarles
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350431546
ISBN 10: 1350431540
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 09 January 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Preface, by Jon Rivera Introduction Editor /Author Biographies Paiting in Red by Luis Alfaro FIXED by Boni B. Alvarez School for Witches, or Friendship Betrayed! by Madhuri Shekar The King Of Maricopa County by Mary Lyon Kamitak The Woodingle Puppet Show with Host Mr. C, as Constructed by Mr. Asinine with Calculations and Articulations of the Genius Sort by Julie Taiwo Quarles Traces of Desire by Lina Patel Florence and Normandie by June Carryl

Barbara Fuchs (Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English, UCLA) is founder and director of Diversifying the Classics, its Golden Tongues adaptation initiative, and the LA Escena festival of Hispanic classical theater. Her most recent book is Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama 2021). Robin Alfriend Kello is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA. His teaching and research focus on early modern drama in English and Spanish, adaptations of Shakespeare, and the theater of migration. He has been part of Diversifying the Classics since 2016, and served as a Golden Tongues dramaturg in 2020. Aina Soley Mateu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. Her dissertation considers representations of historical memory in twenty-first century Catalan literature. She is a long-term member of Diversifying the Classics, and has worked as a dramaturg for Golden Tongues since 2020.