| Joann Farias was a 2004 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights at the Miracle Theatre, where she wrote The Road to XibalbA�, which was produced in 2006 thanks to a grant from the NEA. Her work has been read at Brava! For Women in the Arts in San Francisco, FringeACT Festival, A Contemporary Theatre/Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, and Richard Hugo House. Claudia Meets Fulano Colorado was workshopped at South Coast Repertory Theatre's Hispanic Project in 1997 and at Live Girls! Theater in 2005 and published in Latino Plays from South Coast Repertory: Hispanic Playwrights Project Anthology (2000). South Coast commissioned Tino Does Time, which won the Richard Hugo House New Play Competition in 2000 and was produced by Live Girls! Theater in 2003 and Miracle Theatre in 2004. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, was produced by South Coast Rep as part of California Scenarios. Las Tres Marias (co-authored with Marta Sanchez and Carmen Carrion) was produced by Mae West Fest and read at Bumbershoot and Miracle Theatre. Edward, CEO was read at FringeACT and is currently a musical (with composer Bernard Pack). The Seattle Opera Education Department commissioned and produced La Casa Verdi and Orpheus Sings of Love. Live Girls! Theatre produced the short plays Raula's Last Stand and El Corrido de Manny Cruz. Cornish College of the Arts commissioned and produced a translation of Moliere's George Dandin (with Chuck Hudson). Seattle's La Casa de Artes commissioned and produced El Corrido de Manny Cruz. Her radio work has been produced by Shoestring Radio Theatre, Jack Straw, New Waves Radio Theatre, and KUOW. Literary work has been published in The Amherst Review, The South Carolina Review, and Dialogue. |
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California Scenarios
a collection of short plays about the history of Latinos in California
by Luis Alfaro, Rick Coca, Joann Farias, Anne Garcia-Romero, et al. |
 
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 90-110 minutes
6 females, 3 males, 6 either
(8-20 actors possible: 4-10 females, 4-10 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 6 plays. Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
Rich in history, fantasy, triumph, and longing, this collection of short plays captures aspects of Latinos in California, from a group of women waiting in the night to be swept away by their bandit-boyfriend (Desert Longing or Las Aventureras by Anne Garcia-Romero), to a young monk who finds introspection in the form of a skeleton (The Seven Visions of Encarnacion by Octavio Solis). Inspired by Isamu Noguchi's sculpture garden "California Scenario," each play reveals a complex view of the California landscape as it has never been seen before.
To purchase this book of 6 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Desert Longing or Las Aventureras by Anne Garcia-Romero
The Gardens of Aztlan by Luis Alfaro
The Hanging of Josefa by Rick Coca
Odysseus Cruz by Jose Cruz Gonzalez
The Seven Visions of Encarnacion by Octavio Solis
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back by Joann Farias
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| "The collected work of five talented Hispanic playwrights is picking up where John Steinbeck's tales of outsider anguish and California woe left off...where Steinbeck's words painted dire portraits of migrants and immigrants leaden with social criticism, these playwrights display a common optimism for the next generation. Without waxing sentimental, each playlet ends with renewed vigor and promise of better days." |
| --Denise Martin, Orange County Register |
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Drama
Short, 13-15 minutes
4 females, 4 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called California Scenarios.
A migrant California farm worker encounters apparitions from his life in Mexico in this moving exploration of human reflection. We see the farm laborer, a lifelong worker, finally decide that his work is done, as he
reexamines the meaning of family.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play California Scenarios.)
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