Drama. The plays published here, PUENTE NEGRO, AUTUMN GOLD, BLACKLIGHT, and SOR JUANA, explore different facets of the human experience: the dilemma of the mojado, human vulnerabilities in the search for a way to overcome death, the alienation of the Hispanic family amidst economic hardships and personal crises, and the existential conflicts of Mexico's most celebrated feminist thinker, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. In turn, each of these plays bears evidence of Portillo Trambley's artistry and skill in developing characters with whom we can readily identify and who are bound up in circumstances of genuine contemporary significance.