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Complex Latino Family is Centerpiece of New Play

The life of an active Latino family  is the centerpiece of  the new play, “A Mother’s Will,” which will be performed at South Mountain Community College in October.

The play by Julie Amparano will be  Oct. 18 – 20 (Thurs. - Sat.) at 7:30 p.m., with matinees on Oct. 20  (Sat) and Oct. 21 (Sun.) at 2 p.m.  in Performance Hall of the college, 7050 S. 24th St. (just north of Baseline Rd.).  The SMCC Theatre Department will produce the play in association with Colores Actors/Writers Workshop.  Julie Holston is SMCC theatre faculty.

In “A Mother’s Will,”  Mary is dying while struggling to keep her complex family together.  Daughter Rachel is a “muppie” (Mexican-American yuppie), while her sister Annette is a “super-Chicana,” who has obsessively rediscovered her ethnicity.  Meanwhile, her husband Miguel is bitter, comically irrational, and spends his days drinking and ranting about illegal immigrants.  Their son Mike, a closeted gay man, is determined to reconcile with his parents before Mary dies; and Jason, Mike’s partner, struggles to figure it all out.

The play is co-directed by Pamela Sterling and James E. Garcia.  Tickets are $10 and are available at Showup.com.  

The 2007/2008 Performing Arts Season at SMCC is sponsored in part by The Arizona Lottery.

For more information about this play and additional performances,  call the SMCC Performing Arts Hotline at:  602.243.8353.