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María Irene Fornés, RIP: María Irene Fornés, the groundbreaking Cuban-born playwright who was a pivotal figure in the off-off-Broadway movement, died Tuesday at 88 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
The Trailer for The Rest I Make Up-- A film about Maria Irene Fornes
A Facebook video of Fornes singing "Goodnight, Irene"
A 1990 interview with Fornes. Part 2
1984 interview with Fornes in BOMB magazine. The Latin American artist is almost always a surrealist, whether it be painters, artists, or poets. I don’t know that they ever see themselves as being surrealists. That’s just how they conceive art. Art is something you don’t just reproduce—what you see everyday doesn’t seem to be inspiring to them. But you do something with it so that it’s not bound by the law of reality. My work has always had that influence. I’ve never felt that it was necessary at all to write realistic plays.
7 Things You Never Knew About America’s ‘Greatest and Least Known Dramatist' Playbill
Time Has Overlooked This Brilliant Queer Playwright: If a queer Cuban-American woman wrote forty plays, was a finalist for the Pulitzer, and won nine Off-Broadway Obie Awards, over a career that spanned some forty years, you’d know her name, wouldn’t you?
Probably not.
Maria Irene Fornes, World Builder, Alice Reagan for American Theatre
The Trailer for The Rest I Make Up-- A film about Maria Irene Fornes
A Facebook video of Fornes singing "Goodnight, Irene"
A 1990 interview with Fornes. Part 2
1984 interview with Fornes in BOMB magazine. The Latin American artist is almost always a surrealist, whether it be painters, artists, or poets. I don’t know that they ever see themselves as being surrealists. That’s just how they conceive art. Art is something you don’t just reproduce—what you see everyday doesn’t seem to be inspiring to them. But you do something with it so that it’s not bound by the law of reality. My work has always had that influence. I’ve never felt that it was necessary at all to write realistic plays.
7 Things You Never Knew About America’s ‘Greatest and Least Known Dramatist' Playbill
Time Has Overlooked This Brilliant Queer Playwright: If a queer Cuban-American woman wrote forty plays, was a finalist for the Pulitzer, and won nine Off-Broadway Obie Awards, over a career that spanned some forty years, you’d know her name, wouldn’t you?
Probably not.
Maria Irene Fornes, World Builder, Alice Reagan for American Theatre
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posted by under_petticoat_rule at 11:08 AM on November 4, 2018
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 11:08 AM on November 4, 2018
Lord, a decade and a half with dementia. My (huge-hearted, tough-as-nails) maternal grandmother had to endure that. I always thought she was an outlier in terms of how long she wound up living after the cognitive decline set in.
It's heartbreaking that María Irene Fornés had to live through the same thing.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 5:21 PM on November 4, 2018
It's heartbreaking that María Irene Fornés had to live through the same thing.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 5:21 PM on November 4, 2018
From the San Francisco Actor's Workshop archive website: program for their 1963 production of Fornes' first play, then called There! You Died but later renamed Tango Palace.
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