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July Play: Day of the Swallows
ETC Discovers: Day of the Swallows
Each month, we’ll highlight a play & writer from our last list –– and we’re delighted to bring you…
Day of the Swallows
by Estela Portillo-Trambley
If you’re looking for a lush, poetic drama with a powerhouse queer heroine and an intersectional view of indigeneity…
Hear it in NYC!
INTAR partners with us this month for a reading of Day of the Swallows. They’re known for launching Latinx playwrights since 1966… just before this play was even written! Join us Thursday, July 18th at their space on 52nd St!
Estela Portillo-Trambley
(1926-1998) was a writer, teacher, and talk-show host from El Segundo Barrio of El Paso, Texas. She taught English throughout El Paso public schools, taking a two-year break to host a radio talk show, Stella Says. The show frequently addressed political and controversial matters, and she was asked to write for a local TV station. In 1968, Portillo helped establish the first bilingual theater in El Paso, Los Pobres Bilingual Theater. She wrote eleven plays, and published novels, a novella, and a collection of stories, for which she became the first woman to receive the Premio Quinto Sol Award. She continued writing and teaching until her death in 1998.
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Hear more about the play, the writer, and why we love it on this month’s episode of This Is A Classic! and hosted by curators Gagarin and Skye Pagon.
This Month’s Partner Reading:
July 18 - Day of the Swallows
with INTAR
Expand the Canon is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program), and the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
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