Praise for José Rivera:
"Even if you've never seen Puerto Rico or grown old, you sit there ruminating on love, sacrifice, and betrayal."—
Chicago Tribune
, on
Boleros for the Disenchanted
"Teasingly engrossing. . . . Vividly written. . . . An intriguing and evocative drama."—
The San Francisco Chronicle
Brainpeople
"Mr. Rivera's intimate play . . . uses historical fact as a frame to pose intriguing questions about what might have happened."—
The New York Times
School of the Americas
Three new works from José Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal.
is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With
, Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a post-apocalyptic setting who feast on a freshly slaughtered tiger. In
, he imagines Che Guevara's encounter—more passionate than political—with a young schoolteacher in Bolivia. Also included is his one-act penned in protest of California's Proposition 8,
Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words
.
José Rivera
's works include the plays
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
,
Marisol
Cloud Tectonics
, and
Sueno
(an adaptation of
Life Is a Dream
), as well as the Oscar-nominated screenplay to
The Motorcycle Diaries