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A Mexican Trilogy: Charity

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by Evelina Fernandez

Directed by Debra Gallegos
June 3-July 1

Faith, Hope, and Charity comprise Evelina Fernandez's series, A Mexican Trilogy. Together the plays tell the story of the Moraleses, a Mexican-American family over a period of 100 years. The plays depict aspects of tradition, religion, labor issues, war, and the clash between immigrants and their first and second-generation American offspring.

Charity, the final play in the series, takes up this American family story as the world mourns the death of Pope John Paul II. The centenarian matriarch of the family is visited by spirits of her past including her husband and her great-grandson slain in Iraq. A young, distant relative from Mexico suddenly arrives full of idealism about the opportunities he will find in the United States. Although she has seen her share of tragedy, Esperanza continues to hold the family together with her wit and authenticity.

Esperanza’s family is filled with colorful and lively characters who love and care for her. Gina, her granddaughter, and her husband, Rudy, experienced the aftermath of the Viet Nam War for many in their family and became anti-war activists, only to see their only son killed in yet another war. The youngest generation of the Morales family, especially Valentina, her great-granddaughter, have special bond with Esperanza which helps the family find the courage to take the next steps in their journey.

While Charity is the culmination of A Mexican Trilogy, it stands beautifully as a story on its own as it explores the universal need to belong that we all share--to family, to culture, to country.

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A Shayna Maidel

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A Shayna Maidel - Firehouse TheaterA Shayna Maidel
By Barbara Lebow

Directed by Steve Tangedal

April 8 - May 6
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2:00

Two sisters,  one a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, the other brought up as an American, meet in New York in 1946 after a separation of almost 20 years.  Although born in Poland, Rose, now in her 20s, came to the United States with her father, Mordechai, at the age of four and is now completely “Americanized”. The plan had been for Rose’s mother and sister to join the others, but the sister fell ill with scarlet fever, the mother stayed on to care for her, and soon the rise of the Nazis cut off their escape. Their ordeal in the concentration camps, which only the sister survived, has brought a burden of guilt to the aging Mordechai and deeply mixed feelings as he awaits the arrival of his elder daughter, Lusia, who has, at last, found her way to America.  A powerful, haunting and deeply affecting portrait of a family conveying the aftermath of the Holocaust through a poignant, imaginatively conceived examination of one divided family’s experience.

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Tiny Beautiful Things

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Tiny Beautiful Thingsby Nia Vardalos and Cheryl Strayed

Directed by Peter J. Hughes

February 25 - March 25, 2023
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2:00

Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that “Sugar” was publishing online from 2010-2012. When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid, anonymous position of advice columnist, Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small. Tiny Beautiful Things is a play about reaching when you’re stuck, healing when you’re broken, and finding the courage to take on the questions which have no answers.

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