Synopses & Reviews
Drama. HEROES AND SAINTS AND OTHER PLAYS is Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are "Shadow of a Man," winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; "Heroes and Saints," winner of the Drama-logue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and "Giving Up the Ghost," first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version. Nationally recognized as a poet, essayist, cultural organizer, and the co-editor of THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK, Cherrie Moraga won the National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Playwright's Fellowship in 1993. American Theatre has described her as a playwright "on the cutting edge.carving out the future of Chicano Theatre."
Synopsis
Heroes and Saints and Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrí¬e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: Shadow of a Man, winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; Heroes and Saints, winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and Giving Up the Ghost, first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version.
Synopsis
Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga's premiere collection of award winning theatre.
About the Author
Nationally recognized as a poet, essayist, and cultural organizer, Cherríe Moraga is coeditor of the feminist multicultural anthology This Bridge Called My Back. American Theatre has described her as a playwright "on the cutting edge . . . carv[ing] out the future of Chicano Theatre."
Table of Contents
Giving up the ghost -- Shadow of a man -- Heroes and saints.