“The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea”

2000 Moraga, Cherríe L[awrence] (b. 1952). “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea.” Out of the Fringe: Latino/a Theater and Performance. Ed. María Teresa Marrero and Caridad Svich (New York: Theater Communications, 2000), 289-363 with a note by the author on 290-91 and a note about the author on 363. Rpt. in her The Hungry Woman (Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 2001), 1-99, with a “Foreword Hungry for God” by the author (vii-x). The play had staged readings at the Berkeley Repertory in 1995, the Mark Taper Forum’s New Works Festival in Los Angeles in 1995, the Brava Theater Center of San Francisco in 1997, and The Esperanza Center and Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX in 2000, and was first performed as part of the Plays at the Border Festival at The Magic Theater of San Francisco on December 4, 2000. PSt, Villanova U

Alternative history projected into the twenty-first century. In this future, the U.S. has broken up into a number of small nations, many of which were based on ethnicity, including the Mechicano Nation of Aztlán, which includes some of the northern states of the former México. The new states are initially eutopia but after a second revolution become dystopian with all the traditional hierarchies. Chicana author.