All In A Puerto Rican Family - Jose Rivera’s ‘House of Ramon Iglesia’ no Hispanic caricature

“”The House of Ramon Iglesia” is early Jose Rivera, but it appeals more than some of his later symbolic and slice-of-life works, including “Marisol” and “Sonnets for an Old Century.” “House” - which premiered off-Broadway in 1983 and aired on PBS “American Playhouse” in 1986 - is more traditionally structured and plotted. A spin on the Rivera autobiography, it tells a simple story of a struggling immigrant family and an Americanized sons efforts to break from his Puerto Rican parents, making it more accessible and readily understandable to the average theatergoer”

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