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"A play
about: poetry and perversion; about making love and
making art; about that old story of loving to death. Who
murdered “Sirena Cantante” is not the question.
The
question is: why?"
Directed by Cherríe Moraga & Adelina Anthony
STARRING:
Adelina Anthony*, Virginia Grise, Cheryl Umaña*,
Anthony Rodrigo Castillo,
Brenda Banda, D'Lo, & Melissa
Hidalgo
Cast Bios
DESIGNERS & PRODUCTION CREW:
Celia
Herrera Rodriguez (Conceptual Scenic & Costume
Design), Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz (Design Consultant),
Angela Fong (Stage Manager),
Tatiana Kuilanoff (Scenic Designer),
Amy Millan (Costume Designer), Xaime Casillas (Sound Designer),
Xanthe H. Huynh (Assist. Sound Designer),
Karyn Diane Lawrence (Lighting Designer) and Richard
Ordiano (Resident Artist & Set Builder)
SPECIAL NOTES:
SEATING IS
LIMITED. ARRIVE EARLY. ABSOLUTELY NO LATE SEATING. NO
TICKET REFUNDS
OR TICKET EXCHANGES!
Unclaimed seats, including presale, will be
released at showtime
Play is intended for mature audiences and may not be
suitable for children.
Contains: strong language, partial nudity, and adult
situations.
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ABOUT THE PLAY:
“Digging Up the Dirt*”
takes place, as Moraga writes, “Inside The Poet’s head,
somewhere in the fragmented Chicano nation of Aztlán.”
Here, as in most Moraga plays, the playwright uses the
imagined landscape of the Southwest to poignantly
explore those censored questions that continue to impact
Chicana lives. And, as in most Moraga plays, such
depictions give all of us pause –regardless of race or
gender or sexuality. This is especially the case in
“Digging Up the Dirt” where the plot thematically
interweaves two murder stories. One is the tale of
“Sirena Cantante’s” murderer,
“Zanzibar,” serving a life sentence, while engaging in
lesbian romances and being mercilessly visited by the
probing “Poet.” The second is an intimate account of
the murder of “Amada,” a Chicana lesbian killed by the
hand of her own son. Through the telling of both
stories, alternately satirical and tragic, audience
members are held accountable for their own “crimes of
passion” and the play becomes a kind of moving mirror to
all our unacknowledged “murderous” deeds of the heart. |
PLAYWRIGHT /
CO-DIRECTOR:
www.cherriemoraga.com
Cherríe
L. Moraga plays and publications have received
national recognition, including most recently, a
2007 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship
for Literature and in 2009, a Gerbode
Foundation Playwright Collaboration Award. She
is the author of numerous titles, including
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical
Women of Color (co-editor with Gloria
Anzaldúa) and the now classic, Loving in the
War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios.
Her most recent collection of writings, A
Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: A
Decade of Discourse, is to be published by
Duke University Press in 2011. Moraga has also
published three volumes of drama through West
End Press of Albuquerque, New Mexico. A San
Francisco Bay Area playwright, Moraga has
premiered her work at the Public Theater,
Theatre Artaud, Theatre Rhinoceros, the Eureka
Theatre, and Brava Theater Center. Her most
recent play, “La Semilla Caminante,” was
produced by Campo Santo Theater in San Franciso
in April. For over ten years, she has served as
an Artist in Residence in the Department of
Drama at Stanford University and currently also
shares a joint appointment with Comparative
Studies in Race & Ethnicity.
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CO-DIRECTOR / FEATURED
ARTIST:
www.adelinaanthony.com
Adelina
Anthony is a long-time artistic collaborator and
mentee of Moraga. Anthony is a critically
praised actor, consistently garnering Best-Actor
nominations for her theater work in Texas and
California. She is also one of her generation's
most prolific solo performing artists. In the
last 4 years alone, she has twice been nominated
by the L.A. Weekly for Best Solo Performance,
nominated in Theater for an Alpert Award,
awarded the C.O.L.A. Fellowship for Solo
Performance by LA, and awarded Premios Sin
Limite Best Solo Performer in NY.
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Cherríe Moraga is recipient of the NFA/JPMorgan Chase
Master Artist Grant, which is funded by the NALAC Fund
for the Arts and JPMorgan Chase Foundation with support
from the Ford Foundation and Southwest Airlines. Other
NFA funders include: MetLife Foundation, Nescafe Clasico,
Heineken USA and The City of San Antonio Cultural
Collaborative. |
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*Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association |
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Extended Conversations with
Cherríe Moraga
Saturday, July 31
Sunday, August 1
Friday, August 6
Saturday, August 7
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TALK-BACK
HONORED
GUEST MODERATORS*
Opening
Night, July 30
Dr. Tiffany Lopez
Dr. Lopez is an Associate Professor
of the Department of English at the University of
California, Riverside, where she teaches courses on
Latina/o literature and cultural studies. She is
also an Editor of Chicana/Latina Studies
journal.
Saturday, August 14
Diane
Rodriguez
Ms. Rodriguez is a Los Angeles based
theatre artist who has created theatre for over 25
years. She is a nationally recognized director, an
OBIE award winning performer and an Associate
Producer of Center Theatre Group.
Sunday, August 15
Dr. Jorge Huerta
Dr. Huerta
is the Associate Chancellor and Chief Diversity
Officer of University of California, San Diego and a
leading authority on contemporary Chicana/o and US
Latina/o Theatre as well as a professional director.
Friday, August 20
Juliette Carrillo
Ms. Carillo is nationally recognized theatre
director. Her most recent project, the critically
acclaimed "Lydia"
by Octavio Solis, (at the Denver Theater Center,
Yale Repertory Theater and the Mark Taper Forum). A
graduate of the Yale School
of Drama, she is an ensemble member of the award-winning
Cornerstone Theatre Company in L.A. Juliette was
also an Artistic Associate at South Coast Repertory
Theatre for seven years
Saturday, August 21
Sharon Bridgforth
Ms. Bridgforth is a Multicultural
Faculty member of DePaul University’s Theatre School
2010-11 and a writer working in the Theatrical Jazz
Aesthetic.
Sunday, August 22
Felicia Montes
Xicana Multimedia Artist / Educator / Organizer.
Ms. Montes will be moderating the talk back with
Celia Herrera Rodriguez.
Friday,
August 27
Laurie Woolery
Ms. Woolery is the Associate Artistic
Director of Cornerstone Theatre and has worked as
the Director of the Theatre Conservatory for South
Coast Repertory.
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All Talk-Backs will be with either
Cherríe Moraga, Adelina Anthony or
Celia Herrera Rodriguez.
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