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The Floating Island Plays

The Floating Island Plays

Machado, Eduardo

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Latino StudiesPlays

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1559360348
ISBN13: 9781559360340
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: Jan 1 1993
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In the Floating Island Plays, Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. This tragi-comic quartet tells the twentieth-century story of several extended families, linked by marriage and then by exile in the United States.The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa shows one family's climb to wealth in the Cuba of 1928-31. Castro's seize of power is the offstage catalytic event in both Fabiola and In the Eye of the Hurricane. Broken Eggs takes place at a southern California wedding in 1979 and reveals the complexities of life in America for three generations of displaced persons. Machado's vision is Chekhovian in its complexity, in its balance of criticism and compassion. The story he tells is at once political drama and social comedy, speaking directly to every citizen of the modern world who can't go home again.

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