They also attended an educator colloquium in September 2019, featuring talks by campus experts, workshopping activities and discussions, and cultural and curricular presentations. Teachers participating in the program received the "Teaching Kiss of the Spider Woman in Wisconsin" curricular guide and supporting materials. Teaching Guide, Resources, and Student Conference Program What are our individual freedoms during times of national crisis? How do we create and sustain collective memory? And what role do movies and art in general play in times of political turmoil? We encourage teachers and students in Wisconsin to read along with us and ask ourselves the questions that Kiss of the Spider Woman invites. This novel was adapted into a successful stage play in 1983, an Academy Award-winning film in 1985, and a Broadway musical in 1993. Puig writes this daring and innovative novel as a dialogue between these two prisoners as they come to terms with their fates and the future of their country.
In this time of censorship and loss of individual rights, a dogmatic revolutionary and a gay window dresser bond over memories of loved ones and the movies. Kiss of the Spider Woman is a 1976 novel about two prisoners who share a cell just prior to the start of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its Dirty War. During the 2019-2020 Great World Texts in Wisconsin program, teachers and students throughout the state read Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman.
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