In the 1950s, the Mexican-American Mephistopheles Fulano Colorado tempts everyone in this small West Texas neighborhood with what they want but do not need: 10-year-old orphan girl Claudia, with a millionaire Father in California; young wife Rosa and Tony with the money to cover Tony's gambling debts which threaten to consume their home; middle-aged Jose and Felicia the reasons to descend into abuse; and old Concha and Narciso the perspective to look dimly on their rich lives. In the end, he is run out of town, but only after everyone bands together to affirm and help one another.
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1997, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa CA
2000
Broadway Play Publishing Inc
9780881451894
Included in Plays from "Latino Plays from South Coast Repertory, Hispanic Playwrights Project Anthology"
Included in Plays from "Latino Plays from South Coast Repertory, Hispanic Playwrights Project Anthology"
Historical
Bhopal, 1984: With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living near the factory? And the poison gas explosion that will leave three thousand people dead in just a few minutes—and will kill tens of thousands more in the years to come. How could this have happened?
Realistic
An Anishnawbe man decides to repopulate the lakes of his home territory with manoomin (wild rice) much to the disapproval of non-Indigenous cottagers, in particular a middle aged white woman. Based on a real conflict, Cottagers and Indians explores contemporary conflicts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous sensibilities with humour and fairness. Based on a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario.
