Mexico City /
Today more than ever, the Teatro sin paredes company lives up to its name (and its mystique and purposes) and leaves not only conventional theater spaces, but even our country. What is it about?
One of the good things that the pandemic left us is “discovering” the possibility of connecting with the whole world materially through different digital platforms, among which zoom has become the most common.
And it was precisely through the zoom that an online editorial presentation was made, linking creators from Mexico, the United States and Canada, to celebrate the launch of the book: Theater of the three Americas: scene, politics and fiction. North Anthology.
Theater of the Three Americas is a collection of three books whose objective is to compile dramatic texts from the three most important regions of the American continent: South, Central and North. It is a question of elaborating a complex map that contains representative dramaturgies of each one of these zones and whose main accent is linked to the social, political and ideological context of the region they represent.
Beyond trying to create a catalog of the most relevant or prestigious authors of each of these geographical delimitations, the objective is to offer a compilation of works that dialogue in depth with the socio-political contexts that frame them, in order to be able to offer to the reader an accurate theatrical portrait of what the American continent is today -despite the style, structure or dramatic genre used by the authors- to understand, investigate and analyze the questions and community concerns of each particular context. It is about bringing readers, theater producers, stage directors and spectators closer to a set of theatrical pieces that offer an updated vision of the “New Continent” and that has rarely been explored in this way.
To date, Ediciones TeatroSinParedes has published the first two volumes of this collection: Sur y Centro -which are on sale and in circulation-. For this third and last volume that corresponds to the countries that make up the northern part of America (not including Mexico), Ediciones TeatroSinParedes has teamed up with two important researchers and theater creators: Dr. David Fancy from Canada (Professor in the Department of of Dramatic Arts from Brock University, Ste Catherine, Ontario) and Dr. Lilian Manzor from the United States (Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, United States), who were in charge of making a curatorship and select both the authors and the dramatic texts published in this edition.
This third volume includes four works from the United States and four works from Canada. From Canada is included Babysitter by Catherine Leger (Quebec), Do you believe in the Caribbean? de Drew Hayden Taylor, The refugee hotel by Carmen Aguirre and Our Lady of Delights by David Fancy. From the United States, include Water by tablespoons by Quiara Alegría Hudes, What do you care that I love you (Iphigenia immobile) by Eddy Díaz Souza, moon water by Caridad Svich and Atacama by Augusto Federico Amador.
It is worth mentioning the importance of this type of alliance between countries, universities, publishers and collaborators to strengthen the ties of the theater communities in Mexico, Canada and the United States, as well as the creation and preservation of a dramatic cultural heritage that includes a vision global, social and political of America.
Said publication represents a great opportunity to disseminate in Mexico and Latin America a novel panorama of the themes, discourses, theatrics and stage interests that are currently being written and staged in the countries of the north.
The book can be purchased at the following email addresses:
https://teatrosinparedes.com/ediciones-tsp/
