Nogales

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NOGALES: STORYTELLERS IN CARTEL COUNTRY

In collaboration with Campo Santo and Magic Theatre

Written by Richard Montoya

Directed by Sean San Jose

September 7 – September 25
Cabaret Theater, Temple of Music and Art  330 S. SCOTT Ave, Tucson

CHECK OUT NOGALES’ PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR INTERVIEW HERE

Richard Montoya (American Night, Water & Power) of the acclaimed Chicano performance troupe Culture Clash (Bowl of Beans, Chavez Ravine) and ensemble members from San Francisco’s Campo Santo collaborate with Borderlands artists in season opener. 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. 

California artists Montoya, Sean San Jose, and filmographer Joan Osato traveled to Phoenix and on through to Nogales Mexico to immerse themselves in the bord
er region. The play is the product of conversations with the people they met as they traversed the border landscape. Tucson may recognize a few locals as characters in the play like former TPAC executive director Roberto Bedoya, and Kat Rodriguez from the Colibri Center for human rights.

The play is a meditation of place, crossing over, crossing borders, bullets crossing and lives crossing. A journey into border culture, grappling with the flux o
f immigration and migration as tensions rise under anti-immigration sentiments responsible for the militarization of the border.

The innovative storytelling process that informs Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel
Country is ethnographic in nature: interviewing, investigating, outreaching, being in a place and regenerating stories and art from these authentic experiences. Nogales is told in full focus of poetic text, clinical language, film/video, song, dance, spoken word, dreams and nightmare escapes.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE AND TICKET INFORMATION

Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater, 330 S Scott Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701. Tickets: $7-$26 with various discounts.

9/7 – 7:30 pm Preview (HALF OFF All tickets $7$12!)

9/8- 7:30 pm Preview (HALF OFF All tickets $7/$12!)

9/9- 7:30 pm Opening Night Celebration: With light refreshments plus meet and greet the actors and director. ($26/$14)

9/10 – 7:30 pm ($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/11 – 2 pm Matinee ($14/$19.50/$23.50) 

9/14 – 7:30 pm ($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/15 – 7:30 pm (($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/16 – 7:30 pm Matinee ($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/17 – 7:30 pm ($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/18 – 2 pm Matinee ($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/21 – 7:30pm ($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/22 – 7:30pm ($($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/23 – 7:30pm (($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/24 – 7:30pm (($14/$19.50/$23.50)

9/25- 2 pm Matinee ($14/$19.50/$23.50)

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO PURCHASE ADVANCE TICKETS:

PLEASE CONTACT BORDERLANDS THEATER BOX OFFICE AT (520) 882-7406.

 In person at 4O W. BROADWAY, TUCSON 85701.

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PLAYWRIGHT

(PLAYWRIGHT/ JOE ARPAIO, ENSEMBLE) is a founding member of the historic performance trio known as Culture Clash. With over 30 years of creating politically urgent works for the national stage Montoya now turns his sights on the Arizona landscape and Nogales region. A solo playwright of several plays and film maker Montoya’s work excavates the Latino reality and non-realities of life in the US. Poetic, lyrical, satirical and comic his plays have been produced by Arizona Theater Company, Yale Rep, Campo Santo, Goodman Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage among many others. Montoya is honored to make his writer/performer Borderlands debut withNogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country. He dedicates his performance to the memory of all those whose crosses dot the highways in Southern Arizona and the Southwest. Montoya’s films include Water & Power, The Other Barrio and Carlos in Wonderland documentary about the birth of Chicano Art. A Sundance Institute Fellow and proud father of Mountain Montoya age 6!

DIRECTOR

(DIRECTOR/ENSEMBLE) is a Director, Writer, Performer and Co-Founder of Campo Santo. For 15 years Sean San José was the Program Director of the Performance Program at Intersection for the Arts, where he produced and oversaw more than 100 premiere productions of theatre, dance and interdisciplinary performances, working with resident companies the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project, the Living Word Project and Felonious among the more than 500 artists with whom he collaborated. San José was the Creator and Project Director of Alma Delfina Group- Teatro Contra el SIDA (1994-2002) and Pieces of the Quilt, a collection of more than 50 short plays including original works byRhodessa Jones, Danny Hoch, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Craig Lucas, Tony Kushner, Herbert Siguenza, Migdalia Cruz and many more confronting AIDS. San José’s recent achievements include: multiple MAP Fund Awards, including a current one (2014-15) for a creation of this new work,Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country, with Richard Montoya and Joan Osato; commission of new piece for Monstress by American Conservatory Theatre, which San José co-directed as the opening piece in A.C.T.’s 2015/16 Season at the new Strand Theatre; a recent Headland Artist Residency (Summer 2014); a recent (2014-15) Creative Work Fund recipient with Cutting Ball Theatre for work on and the premiere of his new play with them, Superheroes (premiered November, 2014, published in Theatre Forum 2016); and he teaches regularly at the University of California at Berkeley, where he completed his second Guest Artist Residency and directed Culture Clash’s Chavez Ravine, performed at the Zellerbach Playhouse working with more than 30 students.