Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country in rehearsals!
Tucson, you're in for a treat!
We are fortunate to be collaborating with incredibly talented artists from California and Arizona on our season opener. We hope you are as excited as we are about:
Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country
Written by Richard Montoya
Directed by Sean San Jose
Richard Montoya (
American Night,
Water & Power) - a seminal figure in the Chicanx arts movement and founding member of the groundbreaking performance troupe
Culture Clash (
Bowl of Beans,
Chavez Ravine) - and ensemble members from San Francisco's highly acclaimed
Campo Santo collaborate with Borderlands artists to unpack the story of a Nogales boy, shot in the back 15 times by a US Border patrol agent. Interviews with family members, Tohono O'odham community, gun enthusiasts, street kids, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio himself mix with multiple video projections, visual art installations, and ample humor to go beyond the headlines to explore this real life tragicomic theater of the border.
California artists Montoya, Sean San Jose, and filmographer Joan Osato traveled to Phoenix and on through to Nogales Mexico to immerse themselves in the border 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 Tucson Pima Arts Council executive director Roberto Bedoya, and Kat Rodriguez from the Colibri Center for Human Rights.
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: Storytellers in Cartel Country 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.
