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2017/18 Season: Return to Aztlán

La Carpa Aztlán presents: I Don’t Speak English Only

October 12 – 28, 2017

Written and Directed by Anthony J. Garcia

Su Teatro presenta "La Carpa Aztlan presents I Don't Speak English Only" — Photo by Steven Abeyta

The “Resistance was never so funny!” A Su Teatro classic that predicted and challenged a dying monocultural world to “go ahead and die” rises from the past to offer hope and laughter. La Carpa imagines a future world where all diversity is prohibited and any expression of the other has been forced underground. The play with music, is based on the Mexican “tent show” tradition: which emerged during the 1920-30s in small towns across the Southwestern United States and Mexico. Carpas were looked at as ”lower class” entertainment. Some of Mexico’s greatest performers came out of the carpa tradition including the man whom Charlie Chaplin called “the world’s greatest comedian,” Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas.

The Miracle at Tepeyac

December 7 – 23, 2017

Written and directed by Anthony J Garcia

Experience the pageantry and beauty of faith and commitment that has endured for centuries. On a small hill called Tepeyacatl a 57 year old Mexica native has an encounter that will transform 2 continents. The play calls us to question what it means to serve a higher purpose and what if that purpose was each other. The music will move you, the message will inspire you and the moment will stay with you for days to come.

The River Bride

March 8 – 25, 2018

written by Marisela Treviño Orta

directed by Hugo Jon Sayles

A secret the river won’t give up!

A folk set along the Amazon River, tale told with lyrical passion by one of the best poets in Latino playwrighting. Marisela Treviño Orta’s storytelling blends all of this into a heartrending tale of love, grudges, transformation . . . and the ever-present river, giving and taking away.