The students’ theater troupe of the Institute of English and American Studies will stage “Brown Buffalo” (2014) by Carlos Morton, a contemporary Chicano American dramatist, directed by Zsigmond Lakó. The English-language performance is scheduled for Monday, September 26, starting at 8 p.m. in Stúdió 111 of the Main Building of the University of Debrecen.
The author of the play is also going to be present at the Hungarian premiere. Carlos Morton is one of the best-known representatives of Chicano theater in the United States, whose works focusing on the bilingual culture of the US-Mexico border area and the civilization, myths, and history of the Mesoamerican belt have been produced both in the USA and abroad well over a hundred times. His professional credits include the San Francisco-based Mime Troupe, the New York Shakespeare Festival, La Compania Nacional de Mexico, and the Arizona Theatre Company: all centers of US innovative and avant-garde theater movements.
Carlos Morton is a playwright, stage director, and professor, who teaches theater and dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His play “Brown Buffalo” resurrects the figure of Chicano attorney, politician, and writer Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, who disappeared mysteriously in 1974, but had become known beforehand as a 20th-century Robin Hood, protecting his fallen, devastated, and humiliated Chicano compatriots. The plot of the play, which combines comedy with tragic and satiric overtones, confronts Acosta (self-proclaimed “brown buffalo”) with his own life and achievements.
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