[Cwgrad-announcements] dias y flores play

[Ching-In Chen]

DIAS Y FLORES A meditation on love - straight, gay and filial
Event InfoHost: Company of Angels -Theatre for Los
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Performance <http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=400000010&c1=5&c2=40>
Network:Global
Time and Place Start Time:Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 10:00pm
Location:CoA at The Alexandria Hotel
Street:501 S. Spring St., 3rd Floor
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA
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DescriptionCOMPANY OF ANGELS & ROCIO IN SPITE OF IT ALL
present The World Premiere of

DIAS Y FLORES
BY OLIVER MAYER / DIRECTED BY LUIS ALFARO
TWO OF LA'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTEMPORARY VOICES IN THEATER!

Dias y Flores is a meditation on love $B!>(B straight, gay and filial. Testing
which love is strongest, the
play seeks the musical magic of love. Its story is loosely based on A
Thousand and One Nights
and the music of Cuban Silvio Rodriguez and Beethoven. It also looks at the
changing face of
Latinos - Caribbean to Mexican. What does it mean to be Latino and in love?
What happens
when your sexual feelings cross boundaries?

A new play with Live music, set in the jungles and gardens of New York's
Lower East Side: Sherezad's got an ache so deep in her soul it's driving her
mad. Can Silvio Flores, with his guitar and lilting melodies, be Sherezad's
Arabian Knight?

Cast
miguel angel caballero / marlene forte / justin huen
mel Rodriguez & carolyn zeller , performing Jan 23, 24 & 25

"Dias y Flores" stars Miguel Angel Caballero, Justin Huen, Mel Rodriguez,
Carolyn Zeller and $B!>(B critically acclaimed Cuban actress Marlene Forte who
can be seen weekly on Tyler Perry's hit TV show "House of Payne" and will
grace the silver screen this year in the highly anticipated JJ Abrams
feature film "Star Trek".

Both Mayer and Alfaro have greatly contributed to not only building LA as a
center for theater but as well shaping the image of the chicano culture
through their theater work. Luis Alfaro is a critically acclaimed
writer/performer who works in poetry, plays, short stories, performance
and journalism. Chicano born and raised in the Pico$B!>(BUnion district of
downtown Los Angeles, Alfaro was awarded the Kennedy Center Fund for New
American Plays twice, for his plays Electricidad and Breakfast, Lunch and
Dinner.

Mayer who is best known for his plays that investigate the Latino and more
specifically the Chicano experience throughout American history has had two
collections of his work published as of 2008: "The Hurt Business" and
"Oliver Mayer: Collected Plays". It's only natural that Mayer is known as a
Chicano playwright, being himself half Mexican. His career has undeniably
been very much enriched by being a product of two cultures.

Mayer's work is extremely relevant today because it comes from a
multicultural background $B!>(B not to mention the fact that over time his
artistic creations will come to represent a rich historical record of who we
are and where we're headed as citizens of the United States.

His claim to fame is the award$B!>(Bwinning "Blade to the Heat" $B!>!>(B which
premiered at the Public Theater in New York City. The revised version
premiered on the Mark Taper Forum mains stage and subsequent productions
have taken place in San Francisco, Chicago and Mexico City. Pop star Icon,
Madonna , bought the rights to the story about a 1950's
nobody$B!>(Bturned$B!>(Bchampionship boxer forced to confront his own sexuality after
a dethroned champion accuses him of being gay.

Mayer is a recent winner of a USC Zumberge Award for the creation of a new
original six$B!>(Bplay cycle; and the recipient of a Gerbode Grant to write the
libretto for "America Tropical", a new opera composed by David Conte. He is
the screenwriter for "Dare to Love Me", a movie about the life of Tango
singer Carlos Gardel which begins principal photography in 2009 $B!>(B the film
stars Raoul Bova and Lindsay Lohan.

Mayer is a graduate of Cornell and Columbia Universities, and attended
Worcester College, Oxford. His literary archive can be accessed through
Stanford University Libraries. His other well known plays include THE ROAD
TO LOS ANGELES, BANANAS AND PEACHFUZZ, BOLD AS LOVE, THE RIGHTING MOMENT and
ROCIO! A PESAR DE TODO.

Company of Angels, Los Angeles's oldest non$B!>(Bprofit theater company, is
dedicated to revitalizing and celebrating the full potential of Los
Angeles$B!>(Bbased theater$B!>!>(Bthrough deep connections to L.A. artists and
communities. CoA has been the recipient of an LA Drama Critics Circle Award,
the Drama$B!>(BLogue Award, the LA Weekly Award, and an Ovation Award.

Dates: : Opening Night: Friday January 16th, 2009
Performances run January 16th$B!>(B February 8th
Shows: Friday$B!>(BSaturday at 8pm, Sundays 7pm
Venue: The Alexandria Hotel 501 South Spring Street, Third Floor,
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90013

Tickets:
$20 General Admission
Students & Seniors $15.00 / Groups $12.00
Box office: 323$B!>(B883$B!>(B1717
Purchase online at www.brownpapertickets.com/52930 or
www.companyofangels.org

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Ching-In Chen
THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press forthcoming 2009)
www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp
www.chinginchen.com
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