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MacArthur Genius Award Winner Luis Alfaro returns to work with Campo Santo and the Magic Theatre!
The success of his last world premiere here- The Travelers- is still resonating: Theatre Bay Area Glickman Award for Best New Play; accolades from the Los Angeles Times and more for the production in Los Angeles; and most recently featured and published in American Theatre Magazine. The amazingly talented author of Oedipus El Rey and countless more epic plays is creating his next world premiere here- Atzlán. This play is a journey back to the mytho/spiritual/geographic home of Aztlán- and operates at once in mythology of Goddesses and God and simultaneously in the reality of Highway 99, the droughts, the prisons. This road play follows Aztlán in the fight to keep away the underworld darkness in ourselves, our families, and our lineage. This play also marks the return of Sean San José to the Magic stage.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Rejoice: a new play, subtitled “Chicano Califas Triptico,” by Luis Alfaro (“Oedipus El Rey” and more) at the Bay Area’s esteemed new-plays venue, the Magic Theatre. It explores “an ancient aspect of our cultura while reaching for Aztlán” (the ancestral home of the Aztec people), says Magic artistic director Sean San José, who joins a cast that includes Catherine Castellano, Ogie Zulueta and other Magic/Campo Santo regulars. Kinan Valdez directs.
Jean Schiffman
Contributing Writer, Theater
Magic Theatre