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Chile Con Carne and Other Early Works
Chile Con Carne and Other Early Works
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Author: Carmen Aguirre Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 224 Pub. Date: 2019 ISBN-10: 1772012289 ISBN-13: 9781772012286
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About
the Play:
Chile Con Carne and Other Early Works is a collection of
three full-length dramas by Carmen Aguirre. With
perceptive, unflinching wit, these three early plays from the
award-winning Chilean
Canadian writer document the hardships, horrors, and heartache of
exile, revealing the far-reaching effects of dictatorial violence and
terror. Her
funny, poignant, and biting explorations of refuge and recovery are
as pertinent now as when they were first written. Highlighting the
fresh perspective refugees bring to North American society, Chile
Con Carne and Other Early Works
also provides essential context for her more recent plays.
Chile Con Carne is a
darkly comic, semi-autobiographical one-woman show on the theme of
exile, culture shock, and internalized racism from the point of view
of a Chilean eight-year-old refugee of Chile's Pinochet regime in mid
1970s Vancouver. Premiered
in 1999 at Factory Studio
Theatre in Toronto; Cast: 1
woman.
What people say:
"Carmen Aguirre's witty,
semi-autobiographical monologue about growing up as a refugee of
Chile's Pinochet regime, vividly captures the feelings of a child
torn between two worlds." — The Globe and Mail
¿QUE PASA with LA RAZA, eh?,
based on the experiences of The Latino Theatre Group, with whom this
play was co-written, centres on the complex lives of a group of young
Latinos in Vancouver. In the play, a young woman must decide how to
confront the man she recognizes from her childhood in Guatemala –
one of the secret police members who "disappeared" her
parents.
What people say:
"When we think about the
culture of Las Americas, con acento, Canada rarely comes to mind.
However, the recent moving premiere of ¿QUE PASA with LA
RAZA, eh? by The Latino Theatre Group, located Vancouver,
British Columbia on both the cultural and geographical map of Nuestra
America." — Theatre Journal
In a Land Called I Don't Remember
is an
autobiographical piece that takes
place entirely on a bus in the Andes mountains, crossing from
Argentina into Chile. The
author explores
her dual identities of Chilean and Canadian, personified by two
female characters who were the same age and sit
next to each other. Written
while she was attending
theatre school, her
first play received its premiere in 1995 at Studio 58 in
Vancouver to critical
acclaim.
About the Playwright:
Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has
worked extensively in North and South America. She has written and
co-written has written and co-written twenty-five plays. As an actor,
she has over with over eighty film, television, and stage acting
credits. She was the founder and director of The Latino Theatre
Group, was playwright-in-residence at The Vancouver Playhouse from
2000 to 2002, was playwright-in-residence at Touchstone Theatre in
2004, and facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops around
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