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The author illustrates that Mercedes de Acosta was a devotee of the theatre throughout her lifetime and that she developed relationships with some of the most important performers of her day: dancers Tamara Karsavina and Isadora Duncan, whose autobiography she helped edit and helped ensure its publication in 1927; and actresses Alla Nazimova, Hope Williams, and Eva Le Gallienne, for whom she ...
30 de mar. de 2021 · Tres poemas de Mercedes de Acosta: la voz fuera de la norma. Publicado por Soraya Benítez | 30 Mar, 2021 | Poetas mujeres | 0. Aquellos dorados años veinte vieron su luz. Aquella década, cien años atrás, en la que Mercedes de Acosta brilló profesional y sentimentalmente, aunque se haya dado más relevancia a esto último, a sus relaciones ...
Many theatre scholars are familiar with the name Mercedes de Acosta but do not know the nature of her connection to the theatre—her close ties to notable actresses and the plays that she wrote. Robert A. Schanke has published two books that hope to clarify de Acosta's place in theatre history.
3 de jul. de 2015 · Mercedes de Acosta was born in New York in 1893, one of eight children in a rich Spanish-Cuban family. Her older sister Rita (profiled in an earlier post) became a prominent socialite, art patron, and fashion icon whose circle of friends included Degas, Rodin, Tolstoy, Bernhardt, Debussy, and Sargent.
In this first publication of six plays by the flamboyantly uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues these lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of obscurity. Often autobiographical, always rife with gender struggle, and still decidedly stageworthy, "Women in ...
6 de sept. de 2023 · Mercedes de Acosta, born to parents descended from the Spanish nobility, was raised in a wealthy section of New York’s West Side. She met celebrities through her sister Rita Lydig.
27 de mar. de 2019 · Llegaron a apodarla “la furiosa lesbiana”. Mercedes de Acosta, escritora y ‘socialité’ estadounidense de origen español, fue siempre un alma errante y solitaria. “He vivido en muchos países (…) y podría decir que me he sentido sola en todos ellos”, llegó a afirmar en sus memorias. Y aunque escribió novela, poesía y teatro, y fue parte activa de la vanguardia cultural ...
