
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Arts Program will present the Teatro Salon Table Reading Series, featuring Pass It On by Amalia Ortiz, Las Comadres de Morales Street by Irene Chavez, and El Monstro, A Play with Music by Patricia Zamora. The public will have an opportunity to enjoy these unproduced scripts with a director, actors, and rehearsals.
Schedule of events
- November 16: Pass It On by Amalia Ortiz - Pass It On is about a middle-class family of Chicanx women living in the borderlands trying to reconcile modern life with superstitions passed down for generations. The excitement surrounding a chain letter sends a family into a tailspin affecting them for years to come. This play asks audiences to consider what cultural traditions we pass on, and how familias show up to support each other.
- November 20: “Las Comadres de Morales Street” by Irene Chavez - Las Comadres de Morales Street is about the impacts of COVID, gentrification, and disinvestment in San Antonio’s Westside community. The play was created as a result of Chavez’s work with Seniors in Play, a nonprofit organization whose programming encourages seniors to tell their stories and take the stage.
- December 21: El Monstro, A Play with Music by Patricia Zamora - In September of 1921, a flood devastated San Antonio, damaging not only the downtown area but destroying the colonias on the Westside, killing nearly 80 people. El Monstro is a San Antonio historical tragedy. Flavio and Petra came to the United States to escape the Revolution. Amelia and Javier are in love and he wants to take her away from the toil of her job as a pecan sheller. Lupita and her family are struggling migrant workers. Catarina volunteers with the Cruz Azul to help the Mexicanos in any way she can and Jose sells newspapers to earn money to help him win back his family name. Each of them are deeply impacted by a monster natural disaster that destroys their lives and reveals a blatant disregard for infrastructure in their community due to racism.
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Arts Program will present the Teatro Salon Table Reading Series, featuring Pass It On by Amalia Ortiz, Las Comadres de Morales Street by Irene Chavez, and El Monstro, A Play with Music by Patricia Zamora. The public will have an opportunity to enjoy these unproduced scripts with a director, actors, and rehearsals.
Schedule of events
- November 16: Pass It On by Amalia Ortiz - Pass It On is about a middle-class family of Chicanx women living in the borderlands trying to reconcile modern life with superstitions passed down for generations. The excitement surrounding a chain letter sends a family into a tailspin affecting them for years to come. This play asks audiences to consider what cultural traditions we pass on, and how familias show up to support each other.
- November 20: “Las Comadres de Morales Street” by Irene Chavez - Las Comadres de Morales Street is about the impacts of COVID, gentrification, and disinvestment in San Antonio’s Westside community. The play was created as a result of Chavez’s work with Seniors in Play, a nonprofit organization whose programming encourages seniors to tell their stories and take the stage.
- December 21: El Monstro, A Play with Music by Patricia Zamora - In September of 1921, a flood devastated San Antonio, damaging not only the downtown area but destroying the colonias on the Westside, killing nearly 80 people. El Monstro is a San Antonio historical tragedy. Flavio and Petra came to the United States to escape the Revolution. Amelia and Javier are in love and he wants to take her away from the toil of her job as a pecan sheller. Lupita and her family are struggling migrant workers. Catarina volunteers with the Cruz Azul to help the Mexicanos in any way she can and Jose sells newspapers to earn money to help him win back his family name. Each of them are deeply impacted by a monster natural disaster that destroys their lives and reveals a blatant disregard for infrastructure in their community due to racism.
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Admission is free.