Elisa Lerner is the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who settled in Valencia, Venezuela, in the early 1930s. After the death of Juan Vicente Gómez the family moved to C... (Read more...)
Lerner’s characters are almost all women. Often her drama explores how women are unfulfilled sexually, emotionally and intellectually because they are constrained by the roles and beha... (Read more...)
Elisa Lerner’s style is highly satirical and her dialogues draw on observations about everyday life in particular historical periods, with multiple references to popular culture.
Lerner, Elisa. 1960 La bella de inteligencia (Intelligent Beauty) (in Spanish)
Lerner, Elisa. 1964. El vasto silencio de Manhattan (In Manhattan’s Vast Silence) (in Spanish)
Lerner, Elisa. 1966. El país odontológico (Dental Country) (in Spanish)
Lerner, Elisa. 1978. La mujer del periódico de la tarde (The Afternoon Newspaper Lady) (in Spanish)
Klein, Dennis A. 1987. ‘The Theme of Alienation in the Theater of Elisa Lerner and Isaac Chocrón’, Folio, 17, 151-66
Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 13 April 2012.
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