This isn’t just a novel, it’s a multimedia event—the Hunger’s Brides project. How did these related events get started, and what would Sor Juana have thought?
Early on, when Hunger’s Brides was about half-written, in both senses of the word, it was adapted to the stage and toured to Mexico, where it was performed in the convent where Sor Juana lived out her life. The Baroque is dramatic—it has a keen sense of the role and perspective of the spectator. Watching the play performed in a chapel filled with Sor Juana specialists really brought home for me the story’s dramatic potential. What would she have thought? I open one of the versions of the multimedia event with that very question. At the very least, she would have been intrigued. She was fascinated by optics and instruments. She was a playwright. Some of her stage devices are startlingly … postmodern. At times, her flair for showmanship could be too daring. In one play she has two theology students arguing about the limits of the world as Faith permits us to see it, only to hear their own voices returning to them from the unseen shore of what would prove to be America. She loved to enter
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- This isn’t just a novel, it’s a multimedia event—the Hunger’s Brides project. How did these related events get started, and what would Sor Juana have thought?
- Isn’t this unfair to agencies, institutions and organizations to be sued now for events that happened decades ago?
- Can my development organization apply for grants from The Hunger Project?
