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Necessary Theater Six plays about the Chicano experience

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       Jorge Huerta has brought together an array of brilliant thoughts to produce six short plays that all encompass a protagonist and their persevering quest for survival. Necessary Theater: Six plays about the Chicano experience is an anthology of well written plays that are developed in a wide range of venue, styles, and time periods. This paperback book, published by Players Press in 1989, features 368 pages of the Chicano Experience. Judith & Severo Perez's "Soldierboy," Milcha Sanchez-Scott's "Latina," Luis Valdez's "The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa," El Teatro de la Esperanza's "Guadalupe" and "La victima," and Arthur Giron's "Money" make up the anthology that Huerta does an outstanding job of composing. Furthermore, the anthology brings to you an introduction of the compilation as a whole as well as for each individual play. Huerta forewords each play with a critical analysis, production comments, and a playwright biography. He explains the history behind Chicano Theater and each of the 6 plays and their writers. Huerta in the introduction states that "all theater should be necessary: otherwise, why bother to produce it?"
       Some of the scenes are written partially in Spanish and some are completely in Spanish. Necessary Theater seems to be produced for bilingual audiences...