JORGE IGNACIO CORTINAS
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas
Blind Mouth Singing |
| 1st Produced: | NAATCO | 2007 | ||
| Company: | National Asian American Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Blind Mouth Singing is about an overly strict matriarch; her young son Reiderico who sneaks out of the house to visit his best friend who lives at the bottom of a well; her sister who treats syphilis patients in the open-air market; and her older son who bullies everything within his reach. Secret desires and confrontations surface when Reiderico and his friend switch places - press release | ||||
Charm of Preparedness, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A pre-med student organises preparedness drills. But is he concerned with the welfare of fellow students in the event of an attack - or just trying to impress the girl? | ||||
Look, a Latino! |
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi Theater Company | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | University of the Philippines Press | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Enrique has been arrested for shop lifting. He turns up at his mother's birthday party with an expensive gift. How did he get it? | ||||
Loyal Opposition, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Workshop | 2004 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A smart and sassy exploration of the conundrum that is modern identity politics. | ||||
Our Dad is in Atlantis |
| 1st Produced: | Lafayette Street Theatre | 2008 | ||
| Company: | The Working Theater | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Javier Malpica | ||||
Synopsis: Our Dad is in Atlantis concerns two Mexican brothers, ages 8 and 11, who are left with their grandmother in a rural village while their father goes to the United States to look for work. Motherless, missing their father, and left in the care of relatives they scarcely know, the boys rely on one another for emotional support they are unequipped to provide, and for physical support in a naive and desperate attempt to reach their father in "Atlantis - nytheatre.com | ||||
Sleepwalkers |
| 1st Produced: | Area Stage (Miami) | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Tito is eighteen and living in Cuba. There is an economic crisis, he has no prospects and no job. He decides to escape to the United States. | ||||
Tight Embrace |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: An elderly woman is being held hostage by two masked men. Later a young female journalist is also captured and put in the room with the other woman. Then a rescue attempt goes badly wrong. | ||||