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When José Met Sally: Chicano Theatre in L.A. at Grassroots and Mainstream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

Eugene van Erven
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Abstract

Playscript development programmes have been a significant breeding ground for new American drama since the mid'sixties, and in 1986 the Chicano playwright and director José Cruz González started a playwright development workshop specifically for the Latino community. Here, Eugene van Erven provides a bipolar view of the current Latino theatre scene in southern California by documenting the tenth anniversary session of González' Hispanic Playwrights Project at South Coast Rep, and at the same takes a wider look at grassroots community theatre initiatives in the Chicano neighbourhoods of Los Angeles. Eugene van Erven teaches in the American Studies programme at Utrecht University. Author of The Playful Revolution (Indiana University Press, 1992) and Radical People's Theatre (Indiana UP, 1988), he also designs and produces intercultural theatre projects.

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Research Article
Information
New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 48 , November 1996 , pp. 356 - 366
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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