Nilo Cruz
Autor(a) de Anna in the Tropics
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Obras por Nilo Cruz
Hotel Desiderium 1 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1960
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2009)
- Agente
- Peregrine Whittlesey (Peregrine Whittlesey Agency)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 335
- Popularidade
- #71,019
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 26
- Línguas
- 2
As an actress, I would be irritated by the way women are represented in this play. A woman in her twenties pees her pants onstage, with relatively little relevance to the plot. There is onstage sex, onstage initiation of sexual assault, and many plot points that revolve around men being jealous of/about women. Female characters are depicted as stereotypes (the long-suffering wife, the bitter wife, the young ingenue). They have some more fleshing out than many plays, but I still got the sense that there was something deeply inauthentic about the way the playwright wrote these women.
I also did not believe the resolution of the play. Something very intense happens, and the characters seemingly move on as if nothing occurred.… (mais)