Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work. For the La Jolla Playhouse's stunning production of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a satire of dictatorship written at the height of the Nazi era, the action was shifted to a mythical region populated by figures reminiscent of Imelda Marcos, Anastasio Somoza and Fidel Castro. Harvard's American Repertory Theater relocated Jean Genet's The Balcony, a transvestite dream of sexual corruption in high places, to an unspecified Latin city gripped by revolution. Says JoAnne Akalaitis, who staged The Balcony: the Latin flavor imports "a much more visceral energy" and leads to "an art that...
Staff Writer Janice Castro, who wrote TIME's special report, brought a family interest to the subject. "It never occurred to me that women couldn't succeed in business," says Castro, whose grandmother was running the office of a San Francisco chemical firm in 1914, when she was only 18. Castro's parents co-managed a small meat company. While in college, Castro dreamed of running her own business, but the journalist's notebook won out over the balance sheet...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...
...Castro may have decided to permit the ICRC inspection for good reason. Last month Cuba was elected to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and one of the panel's teams is to visit the island in August...