Fables of (Cuban) Exile: Special Periods and Queer Moments in Eduardo Machado’s <i>Floating Island Plays</i>
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Abstract
Between the time of its publication by the Theatre Communications Group in 1991 and its first major West Coast production at the Mark Taper Forum three years later, Eduardo Machado’s four-play cycle of Cuban and Cuban-exile histories, Floating Islands, underwent major revision.2 Of the four, the play that bore the most revision was the third, Fabiola. As a whole, Floating Islands recounts the story of three connected, extended, and eventually dispersed bourgeois Havana families, the Ripolls, the Hernándezes, and the Marquezes, beginning with the first family’s rise to economic and social prominence in 1920s Havana, and taking us to the marriages that connect the three families in the decades preceding the 1959 Revolution, to the Revolution and its aftermaths in Cuba (the setting of Fabiola), and finally to the ambivalent moment of the family’s exile “success” in 1980s suburban Woodland Hills, CA. The differences between the earlier published and later performed “versions” of Fabiola are considerable, and significant. In this first of four sections to this discussion, I will summarize the two versions; I then take up aspects of Fabiola, and of the Islands cycle that situate Machado’s work in relation to the vexed ideologies still (mis)directing Cuban familial, (trans) national, and diasporic histories; the theory and history of theatre, drama, and performance as they inform the plays; and the legacies of spirit, ritual and religion, still haunting Machado’s Cuban/American theatre.
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