Ghost Waltz: A New Play by Oliver Mayer

by Oliver Mayer, William Anthony Nericcio (editor), Elaine Avila (foreword)

Can theatre, art, and music reveal a palimpsest!? In this new play by USC Professor and Playwright Oliver Mayer, we find the answer is decidedly yes! After more than a century of erasure, the sun beats down on the whitewash and the image of Juventino Rosas emerges. This is a play filled with music, love, desire, and death from the pen of the author of Blade to the Heat and Joy of the Desolate. Mayer's play places readers in the verge between teatro and music, between life and death. This special full color volume includes a moving introduction by Elaine Ávila, a conversation with Mayer focused on Ghost Waltz, as well as production photos and more.

ADVANCE WORD ON OLIVER MAYER's GHOST WALTZ from Atelier de

"For playwright Oliver Mayer, the pen is mightier than the sword! His new play Ghost Waltz unghosts centuries of Latinx creativity that has shaped planetary cultural phenomena!"

Frederick Luis Aldama, award-winning author and UT Austin's Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities

68 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2024