Luis Valdez Early Works: Actos, Bernab? and Pensamiento Serpentino - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luis Valdez Early Works: Actos, Bernab? and Pensamiento Serpentino write by Luis Valdez. This book was released on 1990-01-31. Luis Valdez Early Works: Actos, Bernab? and Pensamiento Serpentino available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection includes one-act plays by the famous farmwork theater, El Teatro Campesino, and its director Luis Valdez; one of the first fully realized, full-length plays by Valdez alone; and an original narrative poem by Luis Valdez.
Luis Valdez--early Works
Luis Valdez--early Works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luis Valdez--early Works write by Luis Valdez. This book was released on 1990. Luis Valdez--early Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pensamiento Serpentino
Pensamiento Serpentino - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pensamiento Serpentino write by Luis Valdez. This book was released on 1973. Pensamiento Serpentino available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Theatre of the Sphere
Theatre of the Sphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre of the Sphere write by Luis Valdez. This book was released on 2021-07-27. Theatre of the Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdez’s exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovator. He discusses the unique aesthetic, more than five decades in the making, that defines the work of his group El Teatro Campesino—from shows staged on the backs of flatbed trucks by the participants in the Delano Grape Strike of the 1960s to international megahits like Zoot Suit. Opening with a history of El Teatro Campesino, rich with Valdez’s insights and remembrances, the book’s first part provides context for the development of the Theatre of the Sphere acting method. The second part delivers the conceptual framework for Valdez’s acting theory and practice, situating it in Mayan mathematics and metaphysics. The third part of the book applies this methodology to describe the "viente pasos," the 20-element exercise sequence that comprises the core practice of El Teatro Campesino—strengthening the body, balance, precision, and flexibility but also leadership, collaboration, observation, vulnerability, trust, and expression of passion; of consciousness of time, place, self, community, language, and belief; of honour, faith, morality, and commitment. The book concludes with the full text of Valdez’s poem, "El Buen Actor/El Mal Actor," and a comprehensive bibliography for further study. This is a vital and indispensable text for today’s actor, as well as scholars and students of contemporary theatre, American and Chicano performance, and the process of theatre-making, actor training, and community performance.
Mummified Deer and Other Plays
Mummified Deer and Other Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mummified Deer and Other Plays write by Luis Valdez. This book was released on 2005-04-30. Mummified Deer and Other Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than twenty years, Luis Valdez, the most distinguished Latino playwright and director, has reserved most of his scripts for live stage productions. His two landmark published collections, Early Works and Zoot Suit and Other Plays, are only a sampling of his early master works and of the later plays that made it to the stage in the 1980s. Now, Valdez has finally opened his trunk to release print editions of a revised early work and two brand new, major dramas. Mummified Deer is ValdezÍs mature exploration of the Yaqui Indian roots of Mexican American culture and ValdezÍs own family. Returning to the format of the tent show, Valdez mines maternal psychology and Yaqui mysticism to demand that characters scale the full gamut of emotions. In this gut-wrenching piece, Mama Chu is the dominant, imposing figure who must reconcile the present with the past and unify the conflicting histories and identities of her family. Mundo Mata is the long-awaited drama of unionizing farm workers battling the agribusiness power structure in California while Mexican Americans are being sent off to battle brown-skinned enemies in Vietnam. Valdez assesses the toll that families have to pay to remain united against divisive forces. It all comes down to Reymundo, the antihero, who in the end must weigh existential and political questions. The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, ValdezÍs re-worked first play, still holds all the vision, spunk, and innovation of the young playwright. Injecting black humor into domestic drama, disembodied heads talk, mothers exchange roles with the patriarch, pachucos banter, and sell-outs become the mouthpieces for an oppressed communityall characters and themes that would dominate future plays of Valdez and subsequent Chicano literature.
