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LUIS OROPEZA (1943 - ) |
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Nationality: U.S. citizen, Latino heritage Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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After 25 years of theater beginning with his four-year membership with Teatro Campesino under the directorship of Luis Valdez, and numerous regional theater in the Bay Area and the southwest, Luis Oropeza began his work as a playwright. His plays reflect the rich heritage of Latino and Chicano culture and literature, as well as his progressive social-political orientation.
Plays by Luis Oropeza
Blood Poet Lorca | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Actor's Theater, San Francisco | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Latin Roots Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75195 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | playing mulitple parts | |||||
Notes: | directed by Jonathan Maloney, dramaturgy by Joan Holden | |||||
Synopsis: | This play focuses on the last hour of Federico Garcia Lorca's brilliant career as a poet and playwright, which ended tragically. Told he would be shot in one hour, the playwright traces his career as a young Spanish progressive and his political beliefs at the dawn of the second Republic of Spain in 1936, which led to the Spanish Civil War and his own tragic end. The play details the themes of his 30 years of writing, which led to making him Spain's most popular living playwright. | |||||
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Marvelous Adventures of the Hero Twins, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Produced for a tour of numerous San Francisco City elementary schools | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Latin Roots Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75196 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | childrens' play Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written and directed by the playwright | |||||
Synopsis: | The play is a recounting of the most popular Mayan myth of creation, the journey of the hero twins. Threatened by the Lords of Darkness, the twins journey through Xibalba and overcome the Lords of Darkness by discovering the secret of the cycle of life and death and bring light to the world at last as they rise to become the sun, the moon, and the stars. | |||||
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