The Floating Island Plays

by Eduardo Machado

Book Overview

"Though his work is intimate in scale, the tale it implicitly tells is of epic historical dimensions, involving sweeping political, economic, social and religious change." -Frank Rich, New York Times

In the Floating Island Plays Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. This tragi-comic quartet tells the twentieth-century story of several extended families, linked by marriage and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559360348
• ISBN13: 9781559360340
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A gifted writer, a must read.

Boy, do these plays ever pack a bunch. With sex, secrets, family betrayal, homosexuality, incest, and a bevy of other topics, there's no telling how anyone could place these plays down. Machado is one of the best Cuban comedy writers I've read in ages. I've never laughed so much about the Bay of Pigs or Fidel Castro. I never thought I would. I really do hope these were supposed to be comedies, because each play makes me think of I Love Lucy - but with the edge of a soap opera. If these are not supposed to be comedies - well, I can't even begin to think that way. They simply have to be. There's no doubt about it!