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Mariela in the Desert

2006· article· en· W269511918 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Karen Zacarías

Bibliographic record

VenueTheatreForum · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobalization and Cultural Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerformance artMusicalArt historyArtVisual artsPerforming artsThe artsAlleyCartographyHistoryArchaeologyGeography
DOInot available

Abstract

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PRODUCTION INFORMATION THE GOODMAN THEATRE'S WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF MARIELA IN THE DESERT WAS PRESENTED IN THE GOODMAN'S OWEN THEATRE JANUARYV 29 THROUGH FEBRUARV 27, 2005 DIRECTOR HENRY GODINEZ SET DESIGNER JOHN BOEISCHE COSTUME DESIGNER JACQUELINE FIRKINS LIGHTING DESIGNER ROBERT CHRISTEN SOUND DESIGNERS ANDRE PLUESS AND BEN SUSSMAN ORIGINAL MUSIC GUSTAVO LEONE PROJECTION DESIGNER JOHN BOESCHE DRAMATURGS LENORE INEZ BROWN, TOM CREAMER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER KIMBERLY ASGOOD STAGE MANAGER ELLEN HAY VIDEO EDITOR AND COMPOSITOR LOGAN KIBENS THE CAST: CARLOS: ERIC LLOYD AMBRIZ OLIVA: LAURA CROTTE BLANCA: SANDRA DELGADO JOSE: RICARDO GUTIERREZ MARIELA: SANDRA MARQUEZ ADAM: MARK ULRICH MARIELA IN THE DESERT WAS COMMISSIONED BY SOUTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE IN COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA. SPECIAL THANKS TO AMY O. WOODBURY FOR PROJECTION PAINTINGS. ACT ONE The Mother, Mariela, head high, at a telegraph office in Sayula, four hours away from where she lives. MARIELA: Blanca, my dearest daughter. STOP. All is well here. STOP Except your father is dead. STOP. Read it. Accept it. Come home. Alone. STOP. Leave the American. STOP. I won't bury your father without you. STOP. Hurry. It's hot. Hugs and Kisses. Mami [Photo 1] Mariela leaves the telegraph office. Karen Zacarias is the founder and artistic director of Young Playwrights' Theater, an award-winning non-profit dedicated to enhancing literacy, arts empowerment, and conflict resolution through playwriting in Washington, D.C. area schools. Her other works include The Sins of Sor Juana (Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play and published by Dramatic Publishing). Her musical plays for young people with composer Debbie Wicks La Puma include Einstein is a Dummy, a flamenco version of Ferdinand: The Bull, the mariachi-inspired The Magical Pinata (Dramatic Publishing), and Cinderella East Rice and Beans: a Salsa Musical. Her work has been performed at Arena Stage, The Alliance Theater, The Kennedy Center, Canadian Fringe Festival, Boston Playwrights' Theater, Borderlands Theater, Magik Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, The Public Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater, St. Louis Rep, Chicago Play Labs, Birmingham Children's Theatre, Imagination Stage, Trinidad Theater Workshop, Performance Network, and the Scandinavian Theater Festival. She has a BA from Stanford University and a Masters in Playwriting from Boston University. MUSIC. Transition to the ranch. One single painting is covered with dark cloth. Focus on Jose, Mariela's husband, in a bed. Mariela removes her black shawl, hands it to Olivia, her sister-in-law. Olivia hands her a pan of water. Olivia exits. Mariela faces the bed where her husband Jose is lying. Mariela prepares to bathe and dress her husband. She picks up his arm, and gently puts it in place. She traces his face with the wash cloth. JOSE: Damn that's cold. MARIELA: Doctor said that cold water- JOSE: Damn the doctors. They should themselves have to do everything they prescribe for the patient. Keeps them honest. MARIELA: Blanca is coming home. JOSE: (Beat) So you wrote the telegram? MARIELA: I paid an exorbitant fee. The man said that it would be in her hands today. JOSE: You were gone all day. MARIELA: The closest telegraph is still very far. JOSE: You think she'll come? MARIELA: Yes. Can I bathe you? JOSE: (Pause) What did you write? MARIELA: I was persuasive. JOSE: Did you tell her I was ill? MARIELA: Somewhat. JOSE: What's persuasive about a wishy washy letter? I swear, Mariela, I ask you to do one thing for me, and you can't have the decency to,. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.841
Threshold uncertainty score0.979

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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