Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido

By Elisa Gonzales
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Lyrics by Elisa Gonzales
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Musical Arrangement, Composition, and Additional Lyrics by Moises Vázquez
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*A workshop production presented in partnership with Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble (www.breathoffire.org). *
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*Made possible in part by a University of Massachusetts Amherst Faculty Research Grant /Healey Endowment Grant.*
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Directed by Sara Guerrero
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Musical arrangement and composition by Moises Vázquez

April 7, 8, 9 at 7:30 p.m., April 9 at 2 p.m.
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In the Rand Theater, located in the Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts at UMass

Tickets for the full spring production of this play are $15 general admission, $5 youth, students, and seniors, and can be purchased in advance online at the Fine Arts Center Box Office or by calling 1-413-545-2511.

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Inspired by the classic structure of a corrido, a traditional Mexican song style that draws on storytelling, folklore, and oral history, *Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido*, is a new, musically-driven, theatrical re-imagining of the many untold stories of the Mexican Repatriation of the Great Depression, where over one million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were illegally and unconstitutionally deported, or repatriated to Mexico. In this workshop production, we see the Repatriation and its effects unfold through the eyes of four women, including the playwright’s grandmother and great-grandmother, who were repatriated to Mexico in 1931, the effects of which still echo through the Mexican-American community today.
*Content advisory: Use of racial slurs, and discussion of a child’s death*