LATINO PLAYREADING SERIES
All playreadings are in the 87-seat [Inside] the Ford

	Sat. July 2 at 1:00 p.m. Miss Chihuahua by Alfonso Ramirez Director: Katie Laris Two Latina women try to claim their own piece of the pie and accept who they are in mainstream American society. Included in this is Fanny's recollection of an incident in 1963 when she auditioned for a co-starring role opposite Elvis Presley in "Fun In Acapulco" and was rejected for the darkness of her beauty by "The King" himself. Forty years-and three husbands later-Fanny has just moved into a doublewide trailer in the Mohawk Valley when her step-daughter, Melanie shows up from Manhattan to try to convince Fanny to invest her last savings in a nefarious get-rich-quick scheme involving bovine hormones. When a certain ghost shows up, all is set right. $5 General Admission
	Sat. July 9 at 1:00 p.m. Secret Things by Elaine Romero Director: Juliette Carrillo Delia, an ambitious journalist, returns to her native New Mexico to investigate an unexpected local story about Mexican-Americans claiming to have hidden Jewish roots. She's on the outs with her editor/ex-boyfriend, and he wants her to say the story is a myth to save her job. Her encounter with Abel, an alluring Crypto-Jew, her estranged family, and her mysterious dreams keep pointing her inward to a surprising truth. $5 General Admission
	Sat. July 16 at 1:00 p.m. Beyond Love by Odalys Nanín A nun is torn between her love for God and her newly developed feelings for a young woman she saves from skid row. When the young woman decides to leave the convent because they cannot be together, the nun faces the hardest decision of her life. She must go beyond love by taking a leap of faith and choosing between a religious life or a life with her new found soul mate. $5 General Admission
	Sat. July 23 at 1:00 p.m. Three Tuesdays by José Cruz González Director: Bill Deluca A magical play filled with music, passion, humor and loss spanning a century chronicling Miranda Torres and her family's flight from the Mexican Revolution to the bewildering world of El Norte. $5 General Admission
	Sat. July 30 at 1:00 p.m. Felicidad, Inc. by F.R. Campion Director: Ernest Figueroa Mexican immigrants Bonifacio and Emma come to L.A. with dreams of professional success, but poor English shunts them into menial jobs. Their dreams are salvaged by the seemingly limitless opportunities available in Totally You, Inc., a multi-level company. Soon they are scaling the heights of free enterprise, but when their American "up-lines" begin to play hardball, Bonifacio and Emma must decide what to assimilate in their adoptive country, and what to leave behind. $5 General Admission
	Sat. August 6 at 1:00 p.m From the Chronicles of Odisia Sanchez by Monica Sanchez Director: Shirley Jo Finney FROM THE CHRONICLES OF ODISIA SANCHEZ is autobiographical mythology, a contemporary odyssey thru latitudes of heart and mind. Odisia's travelogue begins at "the end of the world" in a post-Rodney King, pre-Dot Com San Francisco, before her escape to a Buddhist retreat and South, across the border to Mexico City, La Tierra Colorada and the matriarchal Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Eventually, Odisia (the accidental existentialist) arrives at a seaside village where a meeting with Lazaro, a shark fisherman, encapsulates the contradictions of an unlikely love affair that culminates in a moment of life and death in a village by the sharkful sea. $5 General Admission
	Sat. August 13 at 1:00 p.m. Clock by Monica Palacios For a lesbian couple, becoming parents is a big decision, especially when one partner wants to, the other one is freaking out and everybody has an opinion including Leti, the Goddess of Fertility. $5 General Admission
	Sat. August 20 at 1:00 p.m. House of the Rising Son by Joaquin Espejo Director: Miguel Montalvo When Trent brings Felix home to New Orleans to meet his father and homophobic grandfather, the family's demons come slithering into the light. Watchful ghosts, sinister hustlers, and a myriad of parasites lead Felix on a Southern Gothic journey to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. $5 General Admission