World Premiere Engagement of "Faith: Part One of a Mexican Trilogy"
Opens October 19 at Los Angeles Theatre Center
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: "Faith: Part One of a Mexican Trilogy." World Premiere
engagement of a new play.
WHO: Written by Evelina
Fernandez. Directed by Jose Luis
Valenzuela. Presented by The Latino Theater Company.
WHERE: Los Angeles Theatre Center, in Theatre 3, 514 S. Spring
St., Los Angeles, CA 90013.
WHEN: Opens Friday, October 19,
2012 at 8 p.m., runs through
Sunday, November 11. Show times:
Thursday through Saturday at 8:00, Sunday at 3:00.
ADMISSION: $34. Students, seniors
and veterans: $20. LATC Members:
$15. A limited number of tickets will
be available for Thursday performances at $10. On Opening Night, October 19, all seats are $34. SPECIAL: A dinner-and-show option is
available on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. A $50 ticket includes one show admission plus
dinner at the nearby Portofino Restaurant (5th &
Main Streets).
RESERVATIONS: Call toll-free, (866) 811-4111.
ONLINE TICKETING: www.thelatc.org
"Faith" finds Silvestre and
Esperanza Morales and their children
in Arizona, a couple decades after
the Mexican Revolution, during the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The family is poor,
but still better off than the older generation was in Mexico.
Silvestre and Esperanza have
three daughters, all born in the U.S.A. The girls have never been to
Mexico, and America is all the
country they know. Esperanza is very Old World and strict with
them. Silvestre is more
easy-going.
The girls are beautiful and musically talented, and Las Hermanas
Morales find approval entering amateur singing competitions. Faith,
the eldest, wants to go to Los
Angeles to sing in nightclubs, which can only enrage her
mother. All three youngsters are approaching womanhood, which means
they are tempted by boys and sex and other trouble-making
pursuits.
Silvestre is a miner and also a
union organizer, an activity deeply rooted in his Catholic faith
which will nonetheless place him in great danger. He has also kept
a secret hidden in his heart, away from Esperanza's view.
So there's plenty for Esperanza to worry about.
The cast includes Evelina
Fernandez, Esperanza America,
Alexis de la Rocha, Olivia Delgado, Sal
Lopez, Xavi Moreno, Matias
Ponce, Geoffrey Rivas, and
Lucy Rodriguez.
SOURCE Latino Theater Company