"…I think that my early plays had some things that only Hispanics could know what they were. I had to strive for more universal characters. We should present problems that people are able to identify with. In a way now, however, I don't write thinking of an audience anymore. What I think of now is: "Is this character true?""
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On her early plays in “Interview with Dolores Prida” in Latin American Theatre Review (Fall 1998)
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Dolores Prida
Dolores Prida (September 5, 1943–January 20, 2013) was a Cuban-American columnist and playwright.
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