Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta
by Ben Belitt, Pablo Neruda

Screen projections.

A "tragic work" by the 1971 Nobel Prize winner for poetry and literature, who has written an American play—poetically and geographically.

The sound-intonation of the play is American, and reckons with the idiosyncrasies of the yanqui sense of history—the real or imagined visions of its archtypes: cowboys, forty-niners, vigilantes, pitchmen, desperadoes.

The play is a poem, an "insurrectionary cantata", which follows the Chilean "thief", Joaquin Murieta through splendor and to death, as Neruda lauds his rage and captures the dramatic sense through his poetry as Murieta rides again.