José Triana was born in Hatuey, Cuba. He emigrated to Spain in 1954 and studied acting at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. He began writing plays while he was living in Spain and ... (Read more...)
José Triana writes about the political interactions between human beings and the wrangling for power which that entails, whether that be on the scale of what goes on in a family or the ... (Read more...)
The style of José Triana’s work bears some relationship to the absurd, although his version of the absurd focuses more closely on the primal universe of irrational primitive human emoti... (Read more...)
Triana, José. 1955. El mayor general hablará de teogonía (The Major General Will Speak About Theogony) (in Spanish)
Triana, José. 1960. Medea en el espejo (Medea in the Mirror) (in Spanish)
Triana, José. 1962. El parque de la fraternidad (Fraternity Park) (in Spanish)
Triana, José. 1963. La muerte del Ñeque (The Death of Ñeque) (in Spanish)
Dauster, Frank N. 1976. ‘The Game of Chance: The Theatre of José Triana’. In Dramatists in Revolt: The New Latin American Theater, eds. Leon F. Lyday and George W. Woodyard, pp. 167–89. Austin, University of Texas Press
Escarpenter, José A. and Linda S. Glaze. 1990. ‘José Triana’. In Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Cuban Literature, ed. Julio A. Martínez, pp. 466– 70. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press
Murch, Anne C. 1973. ‘Genet – Triana – Kopit: Ritual as Dance Macabre’. In Modern Drama 15, pp. 369–79.
Nigro, Kirsten F. 1977. ‘La noche de los asesinos: Playscript and Stage Enactment’. In Latin American Theatre Review 11.1, 45-57
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