{"product_id":"selected-plays-by-cuban-playwright-abel-gonzlez-melo-chamaco-kiddo-nevada-weathered-outside-the-game-tell-me-the-whole-thing-again-abyss-9781350453791","title":"Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel Gonz?lez Melo: Chamaco (Kiddo); Nevada; Weathered; Outside the Game; Tell Me the Whole Thing Again; Abyss","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One of Cuba's most important contemporary playwrights, Abel Gonz?lez Melo is known for a hybrid poetics in which he employs contemporary formal features, such as non-linear storytelling and flashbacks, interwoven with elements from the classical tradition in order to stage the ignoble realities of postmodern life. \" (Lillian Manzor, University of Miami)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBorn in Havana in 1980, Abel Gonz?lez Melo is a rare example of a contemporary Cuban playwright whose work is performed and celebrated not only in Cuba, but also in the US, the Americas more widely, Europe, and beyond.\u003cbr\u003eInvestigating a raft of national and universal themes, such as queer sexuality, the dilemma of leaving or remaining, political power and censorship, family dynamics, the ambition and responsibility of the artist, and so-called 'cancel culture', Gonz?lez Melo's work is international and universal in scope. The result of a 20-year collaboration with translator William Gregory, this collection of six plays surveys Gonz?lez Melo's eclectic two-decade career: from his beginning with earlier works exploring the pulsing underworld of early-2000s Havana in \u003ci\u003eChamaco\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNevada\u003c\/i\u003e, through to his most recent takes on theatre and its intersection with contemporary issues in \u003ci\u003eTell Me the Whole Thing Again\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbyss\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Complete with an edited introduction by Ernesto Fundora and a translator's note from Gregory, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel Gonz?lez Melo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e explores not only Gonz?lez Melo's oeuvre but also his distinctive stylistic and aesthetic variety, gained from living in both Spain and Cuba.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abel Gonz?lez Melo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama Play Collections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350453791","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397986123913,"sku":"9781350453791","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7d40f0cb-9d7c-4e0b-b489-2e28c31f49ad.jpg?v=1740472389","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/selected-plays-by-cuban-playwright-abel-gonzlez-melo-chamaco-kiddo-nevada-weathered-outside-the-game-tell-me-the-whole-thing-again-abyss-9781350453791","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}