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PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting

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Three Plays

Three Plays

The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows

by N. Scott Momaday

Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his celebration of his Kiowa ancestry, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday has also made his mark in theater through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions.

American Gypsy

American Gypsy

Six Native American Plays

by Diane Glancy

In American Gypsy, a collection of six plays, Diane Glancy uses a mélange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems.

Billy the Kid and Other Plays

Billy the Kid and Other Plays

by Rudolfo Anaya

Afterword by Cecilia J. Aragón and Robert Con Davis-Undiano

While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time.

Aztecs on Stage

Aztecs on Stage

Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico

Edited and translated by Louise M. Burkhart

Translated by Barry D. Sell and Stafford Poole

Nahuatl drama, one of the most surprising results of the Catholic presence in colonial Mexico, merges medieval European religious theater with the language and performance traditions of the Aztec (Nahua) people of central Mexico. Aztecs on Stage presents accessible English translations of six of these seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Nahuatl plays. Louise M. Burkhart’s engaging introduction places the plays in historical context, while stage directions and annotations in the works provide insight into the Nahuas’ production practices. The translations facilitate classroom readings and performances while retaining significant artistic features of the Nahuatl originals.

Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda and Other Plays

Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda and Other Plays

by Carlos Morton

Introduction by Maria Herrera-Sobek

This innovative collection, featuring three plays by Carlos Morton, spans five centuries of Mexican and Mexican American history. In the tradition of teatro campesino, these plays present...

Haunted by Home

Haunted by Home

The Life and Letters of Lynn Riggs

by Phyllis Cole Braunlich

Phyllis Cole Braunlich sketches the life story of Lynn Riggs (18991954), the playwright best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the play that formed the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein...

Cherokee Dance and Drama

Cherokee Dance and Drama

by Frank G. Speck and Leonard Broom

Contributions by Will West Long

Traditionally, the Cherokees dance to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to legend, the dance songs bequeathed to them by the Stone Coat monster will assuage all the ills...

New Native American Drama

New Native American Drama

Three Plays

by Jeffrey Huntsman and Hanay Geiogamah

This first collection of plays by an Indian playwright presents a spectrum of Indian life that ranges in time from the past to the present and on into the future. Body Indian, the...

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