<DIV><p>Praise for José Rivera:</p><p>"Even if you've never seen Puerto Rico or grown old, you sit there ruminating on love, sacrifice, and betrayal."?<I>Chicago Tribune</I>, on <I>Boleros for the Disenchanted</I></p><p>"Teasingly engrossing. . . . Vividly written. . . . An intriguing and evocative drama."?<I>The San Francisco Chronicle</I>, on<I> Brainpeople</I></p><p>"Mr. Rivera's intimate play . . . uses historical fact as a frame to pose intriguing questions about what might have happened."?<I>The New York Times</I>, on <I>School of the Americas</I></p><p>Three new works from José Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. <I>Boleros for the Disenchanted </I>is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With <I>Brainpeople</I>, Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a post-apocalyptic setting who feast on a freshly slaughtered tiger. In <I>School of the Americas</I>, he imagines Che Guevara's encounter?more passionate than political?with a young schoolteacher in Bolivia. Also included is his one-act penned in protest of California's Proposition 8, <I>Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words</I>.</p><p><B>José Rivera</B>'s works include the plays <I>References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot</I>, <I>Marisol</I>, <I>Cloud Tectonics</I>, and <I>Sueno</I> (an adaptation of <I>Life Is a Dream</I>), as well as the Oscar-nominated screenplay to <I>The Motorcycle Diaries</I>.</p></DIV>