Word: canosa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jorge Mas Canosa dreams of a republic where he is President...
...BEEN CALLED BOTH A dictatorial "monster" and a modern-day Jose Marti, | determined to vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...
More importantly, director Hans Canosa does nothing to resolve the confusing images of the play. In his over-enthusiasm to create unusual visual images, he complicates an already problematic script...
...strength of the play lies in Canosa's portrayal of these superficial images of Earthly life and suffering as a dream. Throughout the forty minutes of the play, the overwhelming feeling is one of unreality, as though one were indeed sharing in the dream that Strindberg created. Chaotic, rapid, conflicting and often esoteric images are drawn upon by Canosa to convey this feeling of semiconsciousness...
...which Indra breaks through a whole segment of the audience as he barges in through the door that contains the mysteries of life. Superior coordination between the stage hands and the actors make for wonderful viewing and superb production (Emily Brodsky). In the end, though, it is Canosa who steals the show. His ingenuity, resourcefulness and vision are what make Dream Play a dream...