Maria Delgado endeavors to capture what might be classified as Fornésian and the elusive qualities of the Fornésian tradition, by considering the influence of María Irene Fornés and its traces across the practice of different generations of artists, scholars, and advocates. Noting the persistence of particular broad categories of ideas (including emotional realities, instinct, surprise, wildness, the search for freedom, sparseness, and wit), Delgado also notes the ongoing advocacy for Fornés’s importance as a theatremaker who refused to toe the line and the celebration of Fornés’s continued impact as a transformative artist, enabling a way of seeing and doing things differently for a broad constellation of artists and writers. Delgado argues that the Fornésian tradition ultimately resides somewhere between a methodology and an approach, between a way of being and a sensibility, between artistic adventure and expressive freedom.