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31. Okt. 2018 · María Irene Fornés, the groundbreaking Cuban-born playwright who was a pivotal figure in the off-off-Broadway movement, died Tuesday at 88 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
23. Aug. 2018 · María Irene Fornés never had a play that opened on Broadway. Few of her 40 full-length works are regularly presented on major professional stages. Yet as anonymous as she is in the wider culture ...
María Irene Fornés has been a powerful moving force in the experimental theater scene since the early 1960s. "A major voice in American drama," according to Scott Cummings, and "the truest poet of the theater," according to Erika Munk. Born and educated in Cuba, Fornés came to the U.S. in 1945 and became a naturalized citizen in 1951.
María Irene Fornés–who went by Irene–was born on May 14, 1930 in Havana, Cuba, the youngest of six children born to Carmen Collado Fornés and Carlos Fornés. Her mother had been a school teacher; her father was a low-level civil service employee. Fornés grew up in Havana, the capital of Cuba. It is a major port city, commercial hub, and ...
24. Nov. 2019 · Photograph by Henry Grossman. Fefu picks up a double-barrel shotgun and shoots at her husband near the beginning of “Fefu and Her Friends,” billed as a modern classic and written by the beloved avant-garde playwright Maria Irene Fornés, who died in October 2018 at the age of 88. “It’s a game we play,” Fefu explains matter-of-factly ...
14. Jan. 2019 · It’s been almost three months since her passing, but I would like to take a moment to commemorate the playwright and teacher María Irene Fornés. As a Latina, woman, immigrant, and queer artist ...
16. Aug. 2019 · LOS ANGELES—Originality is among those attributes I admire and cherish most in the arts, and Maria Irene Fornés’s (1930-2018) Fefu and Her Friends is singular on several fronts. First of all ...
