Lynne Alvarez: Collected Plays, Vol. 1

Because Alvarez's voice as a writer does not easily reflect (perhaps, in fact, it refracts) her identity as a woman and a Hispanic, and yet her name clearly identifies her as both, as a playwright she is often seen as neither Hispanic nor non-Hispanic, neither female nor non-female, and as such, she slips through the categories into unidentifiable ambiguity. This collection, therefore, is a valuable publication for its celebrates such ambiguity and problematizes the easy categorization of works of art. - Mary Resing, New England Theatre Journal, December 1999