Latin American Theater Year

MODERN DRAMA VOLUME 1 F'EmtUARY, 1959 NUMBER 4 LATIN AMERICAN THEATER YEAR International Theater Celebration, an event sponsored by UNESCO, The American Educational Theater Association, and the National Arts Council, has designated 1959 as the LATIN AMERICAN THEATER YEAR. Attempts will be made to encourage theater groups of all kinds, university, community, and professional groups, along with children's theater, to participate by performing at least one play from south of the RIO Grande. To indicate plays available, the committee has prepared a bibliography of translations already made, a copy of which may be obtained from Herschel L. Bricker, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. In July, the Pan American Union, Secretariat of Organization of American States, is publishing Representative Plays by Florencio Sanchez,·twelve plays by the continent's best-known playwright, translated by Willis Knapp Jones of Miami University. In addition, the International Theater Celebration is offering three Rosamond Gilder Awards for the best stageworthy English translations of Latin American plays: $500 for the first prize, and $300 for the second, and $200 for the best Latin American children's play. They must be submitted-with written permissions from the playwrightsto Herschel Bricker by May 31, 1959. The awards will be announced in September and plays made available for production by theater groups. More iDformation may be obtained from Professor Bricker in Orono, Maine. ...