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Jul 18, 2024 · Luis Alfaro: The Joy of Not Knowing. The artistic director of the Magic Theatre talks to the playwright of ‘The Travelers,’ the playscript in our Summer print issue, about poetry, process, and possibility. By Sean San José.
Sep 28, 2023 · If the social isolation of the pandemic made you feel like a cloistered monk at times, well, Luis Alfaro knows your pain — and perhaps your blessings as well.
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Nov 15, 1998 · Drifting, unrepresented by the culture at large, Alfaro found a life, and a profession, as he tried to make sense of what he saw in his neighborhood: gang fights, glue sniffers, illegal...
Reviewed by Emily Jusino. University of Rochester. Mojada is Luis Alfaro’s powerful and moving adaptation of Euripides’ Medea. It follows his earlier adaptation of the same material, Bruja, which (like Euripides’ play) stressed Medea’s persona as a sorceress who has access to supernatural powers.
Alfaro does not shrink one bit from the often-painful moments in the play. Indeed, he even chose to use a racial epithet in the title— mojada (“wetback”), derogatory slang for Latinx immigrants who arrive in the United States “wet” from furtive border crossings through water.
Jun 14, 2019 · Acclaimed playwright Luis Alfaro talks to BroadwayWorld about revisiting his 'Oedipus El Rey' currently playing at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, how he forged a path for himself in the theater...
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Luis Alfaro is a Mexican-American playwright, writer, director, performance artist, and social activist. His works focus on the Chicano neighborhoods of Los Angeles and often deal with working-class themes and the LGBTQ community, including the AIDS epidemic in Latinx communities.
