New Mexico Plays
Edited with an Introduction by David Richard Jones
- Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 1989
- 231 p.
When you comin back, Red Ryder? / Mark Medoff- Lola's last dance / E. A. Mares- Plaza / Denise Chavez- Winners of the white atomic sweepstakes / Grubb Graebner- Death row wedding / Nancy Gage- Who killed Don Jose? / Rudolfo A. Anaya-
This anthology of recent New Mexico drama contributes a new vision of the modern New Mexico landscape--urban and rural, northern and southern, female and male, Hispanic and Anglo, scientific and religious. A drifter terrorizes tourists and locals in a rural cafe. A Spanish patriarch takes up personal computing and becomes the target of political murder. Yuppies who work at Sandia Labs engineer the end of humanity during a barbecue. An aging prostitute from the red-light era of Alburquerque's Old Town relives her early days. At the New Mexico State Penitentiary, a nice young thing named Crystal Rae Cox has come to marry a celebrity mass murderer. New Mexico Plays is designed to interest students of drama and theatrical audiences, as well as readers of New Mexico.
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American Drama Plays --20th Century
New Mexico Drama
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When you comin back, Red Ryder? / Mark Medoff- Lola's last dance / E. A. Mares- Plaza / Denise Chavez- Winners of the white atomic sweepstakes / Grubb Graebner- Death row wedding / Nancy Gage- Who killed Don Jose? / Rudolfo A. Anaya-
This anthology of recent New Mexico drama contributes a new vision of the modern New Mexico landscape--urban and rural, northern and southern, female and male, Hispanic and Anglo, scientific and religious. A drifter terrorizes tourists and locals in a rural cafe. A Spanish patriarch takes up personal computing and becomes the target of political murder. Yuppies who work at Sandia Labs engineer the end of humanity during a barbecue. An aging prostitute from the red-light era of Alburquerque's Old Town relives her early days. At the New Mexico State Penitentiary, a nice young thing named Crystal Rae Cox has come to marry a celebrity mass murderer. New Mexico Plays is designed to interest students of drama and theatrical audiences, as well as readers of New Mexico.
0826311695
American Drama Plays --20th Century
New Mexico Drama
812.540809789 New 47