“Theater is the only thing that still belongs to the people”

— Miguel Piñero

As quoted in the book Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=oEKSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq from a 1974 interview that Piñero did

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Puerto Rican writer 1946–1988

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