Dialog of the Dead --> with the Living

["v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@...>]

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
> >
> http://www.historynothype.com/deaddialog.htm
> 
> DIALOG of the DEAD--An Interactive One-Act Play
> By
> Rubén Sálaz Márquez
> 
> © Copyright 2005 by Rubén D. Sálaz
> 
>  Dramatis Personae
> 
> Narrator (female), Chicano, Above-It-All, María (female), Latino, 
> Immigrant (female), Hispano.
> 
> Heckler, Policeman, Immigration Officer (female), Army Soldier,
Sheriff, FBI Agent. Two male stage hands.
> 
> Dual roles:  Heckler/Sheriff; Policeman/Stagehand.
> 
> Scene:  The stage is dark and bare except for the Narrator standing 
> behind an upstage, brightly spotlighted (overhead) podium. 

Joseph,

That play sure is thought provoking.  By personifiying the prevalent
views of different segments of American society in an imaginary (but
realistic) debate, the first reaction from the spectator (or reader)
may be to identify with one of the characters in the play.  

But by the way the author chooses to end all, he's clearly suggesting
that there can be no single winner in such debate, but rather that
everyone involved needs to trascend his/her antagonistic views and
find an alternative higher path. Not an easy task to do, but the play
itself is an encouraging sign that it can be done.

Thanks!

Victor