Cara Mia 16-17 Brochure

C A R A M I A T H E A T R E 2016-17 SEASON

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20 Y E A R S

Our country is on the verge of transformational cultural shifts.

What will be the tipping point?

A renaissance? Or a revolution?Â

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20 Y E A R S !

For 20 years, Cara Mía Theatre has spoken to important social and political issues while celebrating the cultural experience of Latinos in the US. Our 2016-2017 season will be no different.

During a turbulent election year, we’re bringing back the most successful political play in our company’s history. For the holidays, you’ll see an uproarious holiday production for the entire family featuring the smallest mask in the world – the red clown nose. In the spring, experience a classic by a Pulitzer Prize winner and a world premiere by an Obie winner along with three new play readings presented with an eye towards the future.

Join us for the performances and stay afterwards for the conversations. The world is changing quickly and we want everyone to have a voice!

DAVID LOZANO Executive Artistic Director

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“THE BEST NEW PLAY OF 2009” DALLAS MORNING NEWS

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CRYSTAL CITY 1969

BY DAVID LOZANO AND RAUL TREVIÑO DIRECTED BY DAVID LOZANO SEPTEMBER 24 – OCTOBER 16, 2016 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER 2600 LIVE OAK, DALLAS, TEXAS 75204

Cara Mía Theatre brings back this political tour de force just before the November elections. Written by Dallas natives David Lozano and Raul Treviño, Crystal City 1969 is based on the true story of Mexican-American students in south Texas who walked out of school and into civil rights history.

In 1969, students at Crystal City High School demanded that they be treated equally without prejudice. They were punished for speaking Spanish on campus, and forbidden to eat Mexican food in the cafeteria. They simply wanted what teenagers around the country wanted - to become a cheerleader, the homecoming queen, or a varsity athlete. However, these recognitions were almost exclusively reserved for non-Latinos while Latinos were punished for their culture. On December 9, 1969, student leaders Severita Lara, Diana Serna, and Mario Treviño led a walkout that transformed not only the local educational system but inspired their parents to run for political office. Based on rarely discussed events in Texas history, Crystal City 1969 is an example of American democracy at its best.

Crystal City 1969 is made possible in part by the Latino Center for Leadership Development.

Performed in English with some Spanish. Contains strong language.

NUESTRA PASTORELA

BY JEFFRY FARRELL AND DAVID LOZANO DIRECTED BY JEFFREY COLANGELO NOVEMBER 19-DECEMBER 11, 2016 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER

Another Cara Mía favorite returns with Nuestra Pastorela and its family-friendly spin on a Mexican holiday tradition! Written by Dallas’ own Jeffry Farrell and David Lozano, this unique and zany adaptation of the Mexican shepherd’s tale features all the usual suspects. You’ll see the Angel Gabriel, the shepherds traveling to Bethlehem, and the bumbling devils, depicted in the playful style of the Mexican folk tradition, plotting the shepherds’ doom by tempting them with the seven mortal sins. When the shepherds don the “smallest mask in the world” (the red clown nose), chaos ensues and hilarity abounds with broad physical comedy and slapstick.

You won’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind production for anyone who is a child at heart!

Performed in English with some Spanish. Suitable for all ages.

“...A GIFT WORTH GIVING YOURSELF.”

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YEMAYA’S BELLY

BY QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES DIRECTED BY MARISELA BARRERA

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MARCH 4-19, 2017 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER DALLAS PREMIERE

A Cuban boy is born into a humble farming family but after his first taste of a cold Coca-Cola, he dreams of a world beyond his family’s meager acre. Naively yearning to meet the “President of America,” Yemaya’s Belly follows his epic journey into manhood and materialism, from farm to city, to a raft sailing to the New World.

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Water by the Spoonful and a collaborator with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the musical In The Heights, Quiara Alegría Hudes creates an unflinching yet whimsical view of Cuban life and the struggle to reach the shores of the United States of America.

Performed in English. For ages 13 and up. Contains sexual references.

“...HUDES’S SCRIPT IS A RECIPE FOR STAGECRAFT OF THE MOST ENERGETIC AND WHIMSICAL FLAVORS.” THE PORTLAND PHOENIX

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DE TROYA

BY CARIDAD SVICH DIRECTED BY DAVID LOZANO APRIL 29-MAY 14, 2017 WORLD PREMIERE

“CARIDAD HAS A VERY ORIGINAL, VERY SPECIAL KIND OF MIND. IT JUST GOES WILD AND I ADMIRE THAT. SHE’S NOT RESTRICTED

BY ANYTHING.” ISABEL ALLENDE ON THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS STAGE ADAPTATION BY CARIDAD SVICH

Mara rescues a mysteriously wounded girl on the riverbank at night while her two aunts worry their niece will disappear from the violence-ridden city without a trace. On the other side of the barrio, the nostalgic Horacio drives his restless grandson Gusty out of the house with another story from his childhood. Wanting more for their lives than their families and their barrio can give, Mara and Gusty meet on the edge of the city to confront the mystery of an unknown and wild forest.

Written by Obie-award winning playwright Caridad Svich, De Troya is a mash-up of a ghost story, a mythic urban fable and a cracked fairy tale for a contemporary world.

Performed in English with some Spanish. For mature audiences.

Contains sexual situations.

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SPECIAL PRESENTATION WITH SMU MEADOW’S IGNITE / ARTS DALLAS

JUÁREZ: A DOCUMENTARY MYTHOLOGY DALLAS PREMIERE

CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY RUBÉN POLENDO CREATED BY THEATER MITU FROM A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS IN AND AROUND CD. JUÁREZ, MEXICO

OCTOBER 20, 21, AND 23, 2016 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER Once bearing the subtitle “Murder Capital of the World”, the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez is a bustling laboratory of the future – a glimpse into the perfect-storm of economy driven politics, US drug consumption, government corruption, religious fervor, and familial honor all within the landscape of border politics. Drawn by the contradictions, history, and myth within and around this unique landscape, Theater Mitu conducted a series of interviews and investigations over a two-year period to explore the ever-complicated landscape of the US/Mexico border.

Led by Theater Mitu’s Artistic Director Rubén Polendo (who was raised in Juárez), the company creates an artistic and emotional map of El Paso/Cd. Juárez, incorporating verbatim transcripts and a deep investment in corporeal authenticity in performance.

The work frames Mitu actors as witnesses to memory and myth and as vehicles for transmission of the many stories that create a contemporary map of this incredible polemic border.

JUÁREZ: A Documentary Mythology was made possible with funding by The MAP Fund and New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with touring support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Performed in English. For general audiences.

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THE LEGEND OF THE BLUEBONNET

BY ROXANNE SCHROEDER-ARCE DIRECTED BY ROBYN FLATT OCTOBER 22, 2016 DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER

In collaboration with the Dallas Children’s Theater, Texas playwright Roxanne Schroeder-Arce adapts the children’s book, The Legend of the Bluebonnet, inspired by ancient legends regarding the appearance of the blue flower that covers the hills of Texas. In this new play in progress, a young girl reads the book at school and becomes inspired to go beyond the legend to explore her own family’s history, opening doors to the customs of Coahuiltecan ancestors she never knew existed.

ANTHEM TO AZTLÁN

BY TLALOC RIVAS DIRECTED BY DAVID LOZANO JANUARY 15, 2017 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER

This new play in progress by noted playwright and director Tlaloc Rivas is based on the life of poet/boxer/ civil rights icon Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales who founded the Denver-based activist group, the Crusade for Justice, and was also a former 3rd-ranked fly weight boxer. His greatest contribution to social justice may have been his poem “I am Joaquin,” which re-expressed Chicano historical presence in the Southwest and challenged the hegemonic interpretation of Western expansion. More so for Mexican Americans interested in social justice and equality, the poem and Corky’s charismatic persona offered an identity of resistance, pride and cultural awareness. Tlaloc Rivas will explore the role of Gonzales as an influence on future Latino generations.

Anthem to Aztlán is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Su Teatro in Denver, Cara Mía Theatre in Dallas, Borderlands in Tucson, and NPN. For more information: www.npnweb.org

WHERE EARTH MEETS THE SKY

BY EDYKA CHILOMÉ, ARIANA COOK AND VANESSA MERCADO TAYLOR DIRECTED BY VANESSA MERCADO TAYLOR FEBRUARY 10, 2017 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER

After 1,200 years of roaming the galaxy, the remnant survivors of the dying Earth discover that their nutritional generators are failing. Though the Earth has long been considered uninhabitable due to the climate change and nuclear war of generations past, their final option is to return in hopes the Earth has become viable again. When Anghared262 crash lands on Earth with a mission of scouting for food samples, she not only stumbles upon thriving renewed nature, but peaceful people called Earthroots. On this new Earth, she encounters advanced organic technology, non-gender conforming ‘Two-Spirits’, and a new matriarchal, nonhierarchical counsel. Through this, she re-contextualizes history, her new identity and the choice she has to make about her mission and the impending colonization.

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