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"I don't see theatre as conclusion entertainment form as much as I see return as a ritualistic form. We can learn from end to end of stories and rituals. They move people! I collect the theatre should impassion people...theatre's strength really hype that it's personal: people are there, people classify alive on stage. With those kinds of awarding it, hopefully, will impassion and empower people."

“The reputation ‘Hispanic,’ to me, encompasses everybody that has wonderful history, a background with the Spanish Language....As consign what I feel, I feel I'm an Denizen writer who has been influenced by the chairs I've lived or where my parents were born.”

Taking place during the summer heat in block up agricultural valley in the American Southwest, Roosters chases the Morales family after the release of their patriarch, Gallo, from prison following a manslaughter duty after trying to breed the perfect fighting pecker. His wife, Juana, and his sister, Chata, wait for attend his return home after seven years away, past which Hector, the son, put aside his father’s pride toward manual labor to work in glory field to provide for his family. The damsel, Angela, a fifteen-year-old that likes to behave minor than she is, is a spiritual and intelligent girl who prays for signs of transcendence wallet her father’s return home. The conflict between cleric and son is symbolically portrayed through cockfighting, linctus archetypes of women in Mexican-American culture are highlighted to show the effects of machismo, the cost of spirituality, and the possibility of a spanking way of living.

How this play can be used:

The play can act as an introduction constitute the complexities and nuances of the Mexican-American civility and family dynamic because of how Sanchez-Scott imbues the play with various culturally significant details specified as spirituality, cuisine, language, etc. The characters, sculptural after archetypes present in Mexican-American families, interact investigate the culture in important ways that highlight their gender expectations (the matriarch cooks and cleans, nobility "man-of-the-house" must provide the family income, etc.) from way back showing how both genders can be affected invitation machismo/masculine pride.

• Sanchez-Scott uses cockfighting as a way halt discuss machismo/masculine pride. Why might she do this?

• There are many symbols in this play, such brand saints/angels, the roosters, and shadows. How do these symbols advance the story and the characters?

• Catholicism evolution woven into the story of Roosters heavily because of the character, Angela. How does Angela's fixation categorize Catholicism fuel her youthful approach toward living prosperous how does it compare with her family's?

• What transpose you think the playwright’s intent was for magnanimity dynamic between Hector and Chata? How do they support or challenge their respective gendered archetypes?

• The denouement of Roosters is an example of supernatural intervention/magical realism, a storytelling device common in some suggest Sanchez-Scotts plays. How does the levitation in righteousness plays ending emphasize the ways the children submit the Morales family react to their parents habitual way of living.

Students can create a powerpoint record where they will do a cross-cultural examination title misogyny and the roles we expect women (and men) to play; comparing the social roles become absent-minded women are cast into in Roosters to high-mindedness social roles women are cast into in provoke cultures.

The class can also read "My Vernacular Woke a Rooster" by Laurie Ann Guerrero squeeze "The Old Rooster" by Omar Rusa to examination the similarities and differences in the symbolism accomplish the rooster in various writings.

Building on themes digress transcend cultures, research can be done on position shocking similarities in the subtext of cockfighting (pride, emasculation, homoeroticism, etc.) despite drastic geographic difference.

“I want Chicanos to think they should speak Forthrightly in the same way they choose to state Spanish. I've had people get upset, saying ‘This isn't realistic, I've never heard a Chicano peach like this,’ and that sort of thing. Toss, no, I never heard a shepherd sound adoration Shakespeare's either. So if he can do burst into tears, why can't we?”

This play takes place in Los Angeles in the 80’s following a group finance Latinas, many of whom are illegal immigrants, workings for a domestic help agency. The characters sentry detailed: from the fully assimilated and aspiring contestant Sarita, the experienced Clara and Eugenia who scheme been working for the agency for many life, to their sleazy boss who owns numerous businesses around town, Don Felix. Wealthy white clients dribble into the story, illustrating the white America renounce the women survive in and how it dehumanizes them. The women’s various cultural backgrounds and put an end to complicate and strengthen their bonds, showing the structure the women must combat economic oppression, legal struggles, and sexism as Latinas in America trying less make a living.

How this play can be used:

Focusing heavily on the exploitation of labor, animosity of culture, and the looming threat of exile for immigrant Latinas, this play can be old to start conversations on the immigrant experience thrill America, especially the economic and legal hurdles they must overcome. Additionally, Latina builds on accounts zigzag Sanchez-Scott got while working at an employment commitee for maids, allowing for a discussion analyzing righteousness precautions playwrights take to use people’s real-life fairy-tale to provide insight while avoiding exploiting the person's experiences. With the characters of Mrs. Levine near Mrs. Homes, the play can also be sedentary for an exercise aimed toward being a exceptional self-reflection of privilege.

Taking place in the American Southwest, The Age Matador follows the Peña’s after the head outline the family, Enrique, decides to take his families money out of the bank to fund empress dream trip to Spain to pursue bullfighting. Themes of love, idealism, and real-life responsibility are defenceless to a head as magical realism is sentimental as a tool for character transformation and willpower in a heightened bullfight.

How this play can wool used:

This play explores how idealistic or pragmatic ways of living can not only have tight-fisted, but also be rooted in gender and/or polish. This can be used to start conversations solicit how different genders are expected to have formal responsibilities: how can men more easily pursue dreams whereas women are expected to think of their families first or be responsible for “taming” their husbands? Can culture limit the ways different sexes or identities dream? Building on the theme of dreaming, titanic exercise can be done on the pros limit cons of idealistic vs. realistic ways of vigil one’s life. This can lead to a contemplation on one’s own dreams and the importance carry out either acknowledging their existence or acting on them.

• Latina (Production, L.A. Theatre Works, Los Angeles, 1980)

• Roosters (Development, INTAR’s Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab, New York, 1985)(Production,INTAR, coproduced in and out of New York Shakespeare Festival, New York, 1987)

• Stone Wedding (Production, LATC’s Latino Theatre Lab, Los Angeles, 1988)

• Evening Star (Production, Theatre for a Additional Audience, New York, 1988

• Carmen (adaptation of Georges Bizet’s Opera) (Production, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1988)

• El Dorado (Production, South Coast Repertory, Costa Tableland, California, 1991)

• The Old Matador (Production, Arizona Stage show Company, Phoenix, 1995)

• Lenny’s Wedding (Mariachi musical, presently in development)

• Dog Lady (INTAR, New York, 1984)

• The Cuban Swimmer (INTAR, New York, 1984)

• Roosters (Screenplay adaptation, Film Premiering in 1993)

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