When black New Orleans madam and voodoo priestess Marie LaVeau attempts to wrest control of her brothel away from its white financier, she unleashes a racial and religious storm that threatens to consume the city. With his customary feel for character and language, Derek Walcott expertly navigates the territory between two very different sides of New Orleans - one Christian and the other animist. Using song and humour, "Marie LaVeau" brilliantly lays bare the absurdities upon which the Old South...
Music, Theater, and Society in the Comedies of Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1833-1846)
by Luiz Costa-lima Neto
This book clarifies the musical dramaturgy of comedy writer and musician Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1815-48) - a notion that encompasses both the theatrical text and its performance. The corpus for this analysis is composed of twelve comedies by Martins Penna written between 1833 and 1846, divided into three groups, which I have called Lundu, Aria, and Alleluia. The sound universe made up by the three groups of comedies covers African-Brazilian genres and musical-choreographic styles (batuque,...
Panoramica del Teatro Espanol Y Latinoamericano del Siglo XX (Ftsk. Publikationen Des Fachbereichs Translations-, Sprach-, #42)
by Klaus Poertl
La Panoramica del teatro espanol y latinoamericano del siglo XX quiere facilitar varias visiones de hitos importantes de la produccion teatral en el transcurso de un siglo, en el que se analizaran las obras que de algun modo resultan innovadores para su epoca, ya sea de manera estructural o dramaturgica. Los fragmentos claves de textos ejemplares en la segunda parte del libro subrayan lo dicho en los diferentes capitulos de la primera parte. El teatro de America Latina de la segunda mitad del si...
Diccionario de la dramaturgia en Venezuela. Siglo XX
by Luis Chesney Lawrence
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by Nicole Annette Brown Rn3