La Divina Caricatura (Paperback)

This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee breuer’s la divina caricatura is in the metaphysical tradition of Alfred jarry—if Jarry had been a Dante fan. In this play we meet unforgettable characters: rose the dog, who thinks she is a woman; her lover John, a junkie filmmaker; Ponzi porco, PhD, a pig in love with the new York Times; and the warrior ant, who, to impress his father, Trotsky the termite, declares the “perpetual revolution” of the bugs of the fifth world. Each a soul on its own pilgrimage, seldom with a Virgil or a Beatrice to guide them, They often try to guide each other, only to get more lost. A dazzling, comic, potent mix of ideas and character, invention and reality, The plays in la divina caricatura reinvigorate the stage for our time.