2016-2017 Season
Nogales
By Richard Montoya
Directed by Sean San Jose
Temple of Music and Art Cabaret
September 7 – September 25
Featuring Culture Clash member, Richard Montoya, Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country uses original and researched text, created video and short film, set against scenic art installations. At its core is the tragic & true story of a Nogales boy, shot in the back 15 times by a U.S. Border patrol officer. Documentation morphs into hybrid performance as Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country traces the bullets beyond headlines, borders and politics to explore the true lives and real people from the dangerous shadowlands to the powerful circle of an infamous sheriff.
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La Pastorela
Written by Milta Ortiz and the Ghosts Writers
Temple of Music and Art Cabaret
Dec 1 – Dec 11, 2016
A Tucson holiday tradition returns! Shepherds make the harrowing journey to find the baby Jesus. Generously infused with farcical satire lampooning 2016’s biggest political and pop cultural events.
Guera
Written and Performed by Lisandra Tena
Temple of Music and Art Cabaret
February 1 – 12, 2017
Structurally innovative and emotionally riveting, Guera is the nuanced, unflinching story of one young woman’s struggle to survive while growing up with a drug-addicted mother and an overwhelmed, alternately tender and violent father. Drawing on years of supporting herself as a waitress, Tena offers her life as a menu of scenes– audience members choose the appetizer, entrée and dessert– will it be “Mom’s Yard Sale” or “Promises, Promises”? “El Mexicano” or “The Talk”? No matter the choices, the audience will get the full story.
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Shooting Columbus
Created by the Fifth World Collective Adam Cooper-Teran (Yaqui, Chicano), T Loving (Black, Cherokee), Ryan Pinto (Hopi, Omaha, Northern Ute), Rachel Bowditch (European American), and Denise Uyehara (Okinawan and Japanese American).
Location: La Pilita
March 29 – April 8, 2017
“How would your life be different if Christopher Columbus had been assassinated?”
Shooting Columbus is an immersive site-specific performance examining the consequences of time travel and the current resistance of Native people in the face of continual oppression by the United States government. Created and devised by Fifth World Collective, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from the state of Arizona, the show presents poetic imaginings of a radically different past to foster dialogue about a radically different future.