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Miembros del elenco de Los Monólogos de la Vagina y Chismes de Machos. Cast members Monólogos of the Vagina.: (PHOTO COURTESY OF TEATRO NAHUAL)
Teatro Nahual pursues the dream of preserving the Latin identity for the new generations to come that deserve to know their past, to understand their present reality and build a successful future in The United States.
Teatro Nahual was born in 2003 and has been presenting 10 plays around the Bay Area totally in Spanish, reaching the Hispanic population. In addition, Spanish acting classes are taught since 2004 preparing kids, teenagers and adults. Teatro Nahual is proud to announcing the next production named, “The Vagina Monologues” written by Eve Ensler, and the global premiere of the comedy “Chismes de Machos.” Original music by Gerardo Fernández, and directed by Veronica Meza.
The Vagina Monologues play, made popular by American playwright Eve Ensler, was written in 1996 and presents a collection of stories by women on their views of sex, relationships, and violence against women. The plot of this play hailed by critics as profound, risque, empowering and controversial, has been translated into 45 different languages, staged internationally and broadcast on the cable television channel HBO. This play creates awareness about women, who suffer social injustice, emotional or physical violence.
Teatro Nahual presents to the Hispanic community a theatrical piece, where four actresses through vivid emotions and articulated words represent the life or situations that women that suffered emotional, psychological or physical abuse or have found their own voices by sharing life experiences with the world.
At the same time with “Chismes de Machos,” the audience will enjoy 5 men perspectives while they get together and talk about their experiences with women in this educative, funny and controversial sketch.
In these wonderful, reflective and funny plays count with the following actors: Arly Flores, Esperanza Sanz Escudero, Angélica Cárdenas and Carolina Camacho. Then the actors, Pedro Enríquez, Ignacio Martín Bragado, José Manuel Villarreal, Luis Vizcardo and Víctor Vera.
These two plays will be premiered on Saturday, October 9th at the Auditorium of the National Hispanic University/Latino College in the following address: 14271 Story Road. San José. Followed by shows on Saturdays, October 16th, 23rd, 30th and Saturday, November 13th. On November 20th, Teatro Nahual will perform at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, CA.
For more information, buy and reserve your tickets in this phone: (650) 669- 2949 or at the door of the auditorium. Send an e-mail at: info@teatronahual.org , www.teatronahual.org.
