Book contents
- María Irene Fornés in Context
- María Irene Fornés in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Chronology of María Irene Fornés’s Life and Work
- Introduction
- Part I Places and People
- Part II Theatre
- Part III Culture, Society, and Politics
- Part IV Legacy
- Chapter 24 Playwriting Method
- Chapter 25 Alumni Playwrights
- Chapter 26 Documentation
- Chapter 27 Publication
- Chapter 28 Final (and Incomplete) Works
- Chapter 29 Community-Based Advocacy Movements
- Chapter 30 The Fornésian Tradition
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 29 - Community-Based Advocacy Movements
from Part IV - Legacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2025
Book contents
- María Irene Fornés in Context
- María Irene Fornés in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Chronology of María Irene Fornés’s Life and Work
- Introduction
- Part I Places and People
- Part II Theatre
- Part III Culture, Society, and Politics
- Part IV Legacy
- Chapter 24 Playwriting Method
- Chapter 25 Alumni Playwrights
- Chapter 26 Documentation
- Chapter 27 Publication
- Chapter 28 Final (and Incomplete) Works
- Chapter 29 Community-Based Advocacy Movements
- Chapter 30 The Fornésian Tradition
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Olga Sanchez Saltveit reflects on how communities of people who worked with María Irene Fornés, trained with her, and worked on her plays (as well as fans of her work and words) have collaborated in advocacy for and with her legacy to create circles of care around Fornés’s legacy, even as they and others were creating circles of care around Fornés herself. In this essay, Sanchez Saltveit notes how this model of “community-based advocacy” inspired the formation of the Latinx Theatre Commons’s Fornés Institute in 2013 and offers more detailed histories of three noteworthy community-based examples: the 2016 Festival Irene in Los Angeles, Rose Cano’s 2017 staging of Mud/Barro in Seattle, and the 2018 María Irene Fornés Marathon in New York City. These projects were brought to fruition through engaged leadership and collaboration, the leveraging of institutional resources, and a focus on advocacy.
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- María Irene Fornés In Context , pp. 333 - 345Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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