THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Magic Realism, Cockfight, Chata
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Roosters and magic realism: magic realism highly associated with hispanic theatre, milcha sanchez-scott (1955-, author of roosters, roosters, time: the present, place the southwest, stage and house are dark. Slowly a narrow pinspot of light comes up. Enter gallo, a very, very handsome man in his forties. He is wearing a cheap dark suit, with a white open-neck shirt. He faces the audience: gallo = rooster (famous for breeding roosters) What is real? : magic realism is characterized by two apparently contradictory perspectives, there is an objective reality of life as we know it, kotsw in prison, being tortured, trying to get info out of. They await gallo"s return: scene 3 b & c, at the henhouse adan and hector discuss zapata"s upcoming cockfight. Hector wants to sell the bird and leave town: everybody eats breakfast. In that capacity she drives away two shadows, resentment and.
