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Carmelita Tropicana

CARMELITA TROPICANA

  
Nationality:    Cuban-American
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below is a list of Carmelita Tropicana's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Box, The         Milk of Amnesia         Post Plastica         Single Wet Female         With What Ass Does The Cockroach Sit?
Box, The

Synopsis:
A refrigerator moves. There are pet stories and chocolate kisses

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Location One, New York     2008

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Milk of Amnesia

Milk of Amnesia
Proust ate a Madeline biscuit and all his childhood memories came back Carmelita ate a pork sandwich and she fell into a collective unconscious memory appropriation attack into the memories of a pig in Havana in modern times and a horse in Colonial times

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Performance Space 122, New York     1994

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1st Published:
Staging Gay Lives - an anthology of Contemporary Gay theater edited by John M Clum and published by Westview, 1998   

Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Post Plastica

Synopsis:
Part live performance, part video installation, this piece offers a glimpse into a future in which celebrity culture has pitched a battle between the primacy of virtual and artistic lives; in which revolutionaries keep bees in a secret underground; and in which a half-woman, half-bear scientist has gained the upper hand. . .
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Carmelita Tropicana, Ela Troyano

1st Produced:
El Museo Del Barrio, 1230 5th Ave, NY     31 May 2012

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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Single Wet Female

Synopsis:
Uber butch Cammy awakens a desire for meringues and plantains in femme Margaret

Notes:
Written by Carmelita Tropicana and Marga Gomez

1st Produced:
Performance Space 122, New York     2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian performance piece full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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With What Ass Does The Cockroach Sit?

Synopsis:
The story of survival - of Martina a street wise Cuban cockroach and Catalina an imperious parrot

Notes:
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1st Produced:
INTAR Theatre, New York     2004

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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