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Nov 10, 2020 · Originally scheduled for October, Center Theatre Group’s Digital Stage is launching readings of the three plays that make up The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro. Those plays are Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey and Mojada. All three plays are inspired by Greek tragedies.
- Electricidad
- Oedipus El Rey
- Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles
The opening play in the trilogy is subtitled “A Chicano take on the tragedy of Electra” and set in the “City of Los” “Right now, baby”. From the opening scene, the cultural combination is intoxicating. On one side, there is a Greek tragedy complete with Griego chorus, on the other a contemporary tale in consistently intelligible “Spanglish”. Anyone...
The re-imagining of Sophocles’s Oedipus the King takes place behind bars in a Californian prison. In an opening that echoes tradition, the incarcerated chorus provides a prologue during which its members peal off into the roles of most of the major players in the tragedy. In this case, the kingdom has been transformed into a city dominated by compe...
This mixture of Greek and Mexican tragedy focuses on a protagonist who is a talented seamstress used as slave labour in her adopted country. Rather than a full-blown chorus, the narration is taken on by ancient family retainer, Tita. She unfolds a story of unhappy marriage between Medea and Hason, an ambitious would-be entrepreneur. An obvious conf...
Sep 3, 2020 · Alfaro's plays and performances include Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada, Delano, Body of Faith, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, Straight as a Line, Black Butterfly, Bitter Homes and Gardens...
The anthology is completed by a new interview with Alfaro which addresses key topics such as Alfaro's engagement with ancient Greek drama and his work with Chicanx communities across the United States, thus providing a critical contextualisation of these critically-acclaimed plays.
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The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro gathers together for the first time the three 'Greek' plays of the MacArthur Genius Award-winning Chicanx playwright and performance artist. Based respectively on Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus, and Euripides' Medea, Alfaro's Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada transplant ancient themes and problems into ...
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The much-acclaimed and award-winning Griego (‘Greek’) trilogy of Chicanx and Latinx performance artist, playwright, writer and social activist Luis Alfaro is published for the very first time in an edition by Rosa Andújar (King’s College London) for the Methuen Drama series (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Alfaro's award-winning trilogy of plays transplant themes of the ancient Greek tragedies of Electra, Oedipus the King, and Medea into the 21st -century streets of Los Angeles, giving voice to the concerns of the Chicanx and wider Latinx communities.
