Heroes and Saints & Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherr e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: "Shadow of a Man," winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; "Heroes and Saints," winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and "Giving Up the Ghost," first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version.
Cherríe Moraga (California 1952) es poeta, ensayista y dramaturga reconocida internacionalmente, cuya carrera profesional comenzó en 1981 con su coedición, junto a Gloria Anzaldúa, del texto feminista fundamental This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Es autora de varias colecciones de escritos, incluyendo A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings 2000-2010 y, más recientemente, Loving in the War Years & Other Writings 1978-1999, publicado en 2023. También es autora de dos memorias: Waiting in the ...