Nilo Cruz
Auteur de Anna in the Tropics
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Jennifer Reiley
Œuvres de Nilo Cruz
Hotel Desiderium 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1960
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Prix et distinctions
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2009)
- Agent
- Peregrine Whittlesey (Peregrine Whittlesey Agency)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 334
- Popularité
- #71,211
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 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.… (plus d'informations)