From: Borderlands Theater [mailto:bltheater+aol.com@ccsend.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 5:49 PM
Subject: Borderlands Theater Presents: A Stage Reading of "MAS" ONE WEEKEND ONLY
ONE WEEKEND ONLY
BORDERLANDS THEATER
PRESENTS
A work-in-progress of Milta Ortiz's docu-theatre play
about the controversial banning of Ethnic Studies in TUSD.
Staged Reading of
"Mas"
WHAT: Mas
A play by Milta Ortiz
WHEN: Friday, June 13 and Saturday, June 14 at 7:30
WHERE: Global Justice Center, 225 E. 26th Street
South Tucson
COST: Pay what you can! No one will be turned away due to
lack of funds.
Since last August, the creative team of playwright, Milta Ortiz, and director, Marc David Pinate, has generated over 450 pages of interview transcripts from former students, teachers, school board members, academics, lawyers and others intimately connected to outlawed Mexican American Studies program at TUSD. Interviews were turned into a dramatic script following in the style of docu-theatre works like The Laramie Project by Tectonic Theatre, and
Twilight Los Angeles by Anna Deavere Smith.
June's staged reading is an opportunity for the play's creators to test out the interdisciplinary elements of the project which include Aztec masks by award-winning mask maker, Zarco Guerrero; choreography by Yvonne Montoya of Tucson's Safos Dance Company, and live music by fusion band, Astral Folk. Ricardo Salinas, from the nationally renown performance troupe, Culture Clash, is the dramaturg on the project and will be in Tucson for rehearsals and performances.
Mas was commissioned by Borderlands Theater after being awarded a one year residency from the
National New Play Network. The project has also received a Research and Development grant with Distinguished Merit from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
ONE WEEKEND ONLY
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Office Line: (520) 882-8607
e-mail: bltheater@aol.com
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