Description This collection includes six short plays: FLOWERS, TAPE, A TIGER IN CENTRAL PARK, GAS, THE CROOKED CROSS, and THE WINGED MAN.
The profuse and sometimes self-consciously fantastical stew of magic realism - which, like his mentor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rivera insists is just another form of everyday reality - has been condensed s.
Rivera\'s prose has become more concentrated and spare, more pregnant with metaphor and poetry.
The six short plays in Giants Have all the beautiful simplicity of fairy tales ...
Rivera wrote the plays, he says, \'as if we were the subject of fairy tales told by giants.\' It\'s an apt notion. "Jose Rivera\'s Giants Have US IN Their BOOKS, is subtitled \'Six Children\'s Plays for Adults.\' The genesis of the plays, he explains in a program note, was his four-year-old daughter\'s observation that, if we Have Giants in our fairy tales, they must Have us in theirs.
THE WINGED MAN: A young girl bears the child of a fabled flying man.
THE CROOKED CROSS: A high-school girl dons swastika earrings, given to her by her boyfriend, and finds that her life soon turns into a nightmare.
The gas comes out red.
The Gulf War has just started, and the man\'s brother is fighting in it.
GAS: A man goes to a gas station to fill up his tank.
TAPE: If we suspected everything we said was being recorded, would we act differently? A TIGER IN CENTRAL PARK: A runaway tiger renders the island of Manhattan impotent.
Her little brother, Beto, however, sees an "unearthly beauty" in the flowers. \'\'Oh, \'\' she replied, \'\'then Giants Have us in Their books.\'\' The plays that followed were written \'\'as if we were the subject of stories told by giants." FLOWERS: Lulu\'s acne must Have some cosmic meaning, perhaps punishment for her vanity, but when the acne morphs into hibiscus flowers, she believes she is cursed.
Rivera\'s daughter who asked where fairy tales came from and was told that people made them up and put them in books.
The genesis of these fairy tales for adults was Mr.
Description This collection includes six short plays: FLOWERS, TAPE, A TIGER IN CENTRAL PARK, GAS, THE CROOKED CROSS, and THE WINGED MAN
