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There is hell on earth. It is just north of Angola's capital, below the sprawl of the teeming informal market of Roque Santeiro - one of Africa's biggest - where years of refuse dumping have formed a scarred ridge of eroded ground and spewed garbage. More than 1,000 people live here. They are born here, they breed, bleed and die here. Only the devil could have come up with the name for this place: Boa Vista, which means beautiful outlook...
...LADY OF THE TORTILLA. When he's not winning Emmys for writing Sesame Street, Luis Santeiro is a shrewd satirist of fellow Cuban Americans, as in this off-Broadway piece about a woman's religious vision arising from scorch marks on her dinner...
MIXED BLESSINGS. Luis Santeiro deftly adapts Moliere's Tartuffe into a loving lampoon of life among nouveau riche Cuban Americans in contemporary Miami, at that city's Coconut Grove Playhouse...
Where does an established playwright take new work to see it brought to life? Once the automatic answer was New York City, on Broadway or off. Now, for Pulitzer prizewinner Beth Henley, the starting place is Costa Mesa, Calif. For Emmy winner Luis Santeiro, it is Miami. For three-time Tony nominee Graciela Daniele, it is Philadelphia. And for Donald Freed, whose Circe and Bravo was a London success, it is Denver. Three of the Broadway season's major plays -- Eastern Standard, The Heidi Chronicles and Largely New York -- originated in Seattle, while Neil Simon's Rumors and A.R. Gurney...
...roster of current or recent offerings on stages around the U.S. is as remarkable for its diversity as for its proficiency. Santeiro's Mixed Blessings, an adaptation of Tartuffe as a loving lampoon of nouveau-riche Cuban Americans, is the sprightliest and most polished, and it proves the axiom that art has the most universal appeal when it is the most specific. The script is remarkably faithful to Moliere's original in plot and characters, yet entirely contemporary -- a duality hilariously hinted at, before the curtain rises, when the sound system tinkles out Guantanamera on a harpsichord. A Cuban emigre...