ISBN:
9781772012903
Pages: 160 pp
Pub. Date:
May 4 2021
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.4375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Non-Fiction / SOC007000
- DRAMA / Women Authors
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Caribbean & Latin American
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
In 2020 near the United States–Mexico border, a family from 1979 drives back towards Chile from Canada. As time and space shift and blend, the family experiences a series of encounters ranging from poignant to comical to fantastical. Encircled by past, present, and future, their journey becomes a collective vision that immerses us all in the compelling experiences of people attempting to cross or guard borders – and walls.
An enthralling mix of dark comedy and magic realism, Anywhere but Here, by celebrated actor, author, and playwright Carmen Aguirre, is an unabashed celebration of Latinx culture and a virtuoso exposition of the costs of exile and the true nature of home in an unstable world.
Cast of five Latinx women and four Latinx men (or at least a very diverse cast)
Includes two raps by Shad.
Carmen Aguirre is an award-winning theatre artist and author who has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, including Chile Con Carne, The Refugee Hotel, The Trigger, Blue Box, Broken Tailbone, and Anywhere but Here, as well as the #1 national bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (winner of CBC Canada Reads 2012), and its bestselling sequel, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution.
Carmen is currently writing an adaptation of Euripides’s Medea for Vancouver’s Rumble Theatre, and Molière’s The Learned Ladies for Toronto’s Factory Theatre. She is a Core Artist at Electric Company Theatre, a co-founding member of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (CALTAC), and has over eighty film, TV, and stage acting credits, including her award-winning lead role in the Canadian premiere of Stephen Adley Guirgis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat, and her Leo-nominated lead performance in the independent feature film Bella Ciao! She is a graduate of Studio 58. carmenaguirre.ca
