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“DIOSA is a naked look back to the era of the casting couch … [The play] leads the audience into feeling the raw desperation, humiliation and inner chaos of Josefa’s life. [It] reminds us of the glitz and glitter of Rita Hayworth’s Hollywood. However playwright Edwin Sanchez does not fail to convey that life for women in this profession, in the 1930s, was both ugly and glamorous, bitter as well as sweet.” —Christine LeFoll, The Chronicle
“Although DIOSA at the Hartford Stage Company utilizes the backstage of a movie set, this is not your upbeat ‘makin it big’ kind OF 42ND STREET or SINGIN IN THE RAIN. Edwin Sanchez’s play that is roughly akin to the life of Rita Hayworth is punctuated with Latin dancing that makes it a kind of Strictly Ballroom for the stage, with a dark edge … Sanchez’s play explores the underbelly of the Golden Age of Hollywood … is at once a charming and alarming examination of family life, and stardom. The play is most engaging when mocking Hollywood’s stock stereotyping.” —T E Gilchrist, Metroline
“What price Hollywood stardom? For Josefa, a teenage Latina dance, it is nothing less that the surrender of body, identity and psyche. Modeled loosely on film goddess Rita Hayworth, Josefa is the protagonist of Edwin Sanchez’s DIOSA, which is infused with Latina dance and set against the backdrop of the tawdry glitter of 1930’s Hollywood.” —Ellen Pfeiffer, Boston Globe
Author(s)
Edwin SánchezWinner of the National Latino Playwriting Award for LA BELLA FAMILIA, recent productions include UNMERCIFUL GOOD FORTUNE and TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, both in Los Angeles as well as the world premiere of the romantic comedy I'LL TAKE ROMANCE at the Evolution Theatre in Ohio. Other productions include: DIOSA, produced by Hartford Stage after a successful workshop by New York Stage and Film, TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS at the Bank Street Theater in New York, UNMERCIFUL GOOD FORTUNE at the Intar Theater in New York, for which he received the Princess Grace Playwriting Award in 1994, and BAREFOOT BOY WITH SHOES On at Primary Stages in New York. This play was selected by the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference to represent the National Playwrights Conference at the Schelykovo Playwrights Seminar in Russia; ICARUS produced by Fourth Unity, Actors Theater of Louisville as part of their Humana Festival, San Jose Rep and regionally throughout the U.S.; and TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, Atlantic Theater in New York, and productions in Brazil and Switzerland. He was also among the playwrights involved with Brave New World, an organization commemorating the events surrounding September 11th. www.edwinsanchez-writer.com. Edwin is on the playwriting faculty at Primary Stages in New York City.
Special Notes
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