Summer One-Act Festival

Teatro Espejo’s One-Act Festival is back! As the only one of its kind in Northern California, the One-Act Festival offers a platform for emerging and seasoned Latinx/Chicanx actors and directors to tell diverse and complex stories that reflect and challenge traditional cultural norms, while offering a training ground for burgeoning directors, performers, technicians, designers, and creative teams.

The One-Act Play Festival will feature three “one-act” plays written by artists from the Latino diaspora.

white iris: Iris is proud to be Latinx. She also dates a lot of white folx. What’s the big deal, right? But with a mom who’s Down with La Raza and a grandma who dreams of blue eyed babies; Iris’ love life becomes a political battleground. With help from her poetry and a bag of shrooms, Iris learns to understand herself, her roots and path to love.

La Norteña: Two estranged cousins, Elisa—a first generation “white washed” Mexican-American woman, and Chayo—a campesina woman born and raised in Mexico, meet in the southern part of the Mexican-American border for the funeral of Elisa’s mother. The two grapple with opposing views on opportunity, immigration, and the authenticity of the Mexican experience relative to their location. This story is intertwined with moments of magical realism as we explore the complex relationship of their lives.

My Corner: Two brothers, Cruz and George, enter the ring of life. As they both fight their past history after their abusive dad, Lalo, abandoned them for another family, these two brothers must settle all tension between them. George wants to make a comeback in Cruz’s life after leaving everything behind to get away from his dad.