The Sofia, Home of B Street Theatre has placed DEATH OF A SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT in the top for final selection. This is great news for this play. If selected in the top four, the appearance of the play will be in the festival in Sacramento, California June 26-July3, 2022.
Red Carpet Gala event now slated for July 16, 2022. The film version of this play PEDRO THE PUPPETEER! Cinematically presented. Three cameras convene to present a puppet show with crazy puppets and one puppet you wouldn’t want to mess with, or two.
Play and film by Silvia Gonzalez S.
This is a story about a puppeteer named Pedro Rodriguez. Pedro loves puppetry and doing puppet shows, but his Latino parents think it is a poor career choice. With mounting pressure from his parents, Pedro wrestles with whether he should continue. Suddenly puppets he has never seen before keep appearing. Then Evilito puppet, an amalgamation of Kermit, Chucky, and Mexican symbolism appears to guide Pedro, but is Evilito guiding him to his doom?
Join us for this gala event and viewing of his film. Get tickets at HMTC.TicketLeap.com
Participant of Goodman’s Theater’s GeNarrations – GeNs Live – Spring 2022 with monologue NO MORE PICTURES OF SILENCE, May 27, 2022
Read MoreOn June 4 at 7pm, the public is invited to see the play DEATH OF A SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT cinematically. The play was produced by HMTC during pandemic restrictions which did not allow us to have all seats filled. In fact, programs were touchless—online—with access using a QR code that was provided. However, a film was made of the play and the audience will see a cinematically performed play.
What HMTC does is video productions with three cameras. Then edit it like a tv program or movie film. The experience for the viewer is enhanced with the closeups, far shots, and wide-angle shots.
To do the above is a big job for the editor. Many hours are devoted to get the shots seamlessly in a film format. However, it pays off at the end.
The pay-off is on June 4 at 7pm. Do make a reservation at hmtc.ticketleap.com to assure you a seat for seats are limited. The seats are free.
Silvia has been awarded Artist of the Year for 2021-2022 by Senator Melissa Hurtado. It was presented by Zoom in February 2022 by the Senator, for Silvia’s work in the community providing opportunities for arts experience. She has put together an acting training program complete with improv, puppetry, lighting and sound opportunities, staged readings and staged productions, and writes a column for the Hanford Sentinel called HMTC – This Week. This column talks about theater, artists, and endeavors of Hanford Multicultural Theater Company which she co-founded with her daughter. With the pandemic she began a podcast which she co-hosts. The podcast is called HMTC Behind the Scenes Podcast. She also delved into film which she directs and does the editing.
Unusual Theater series created by Silvia Gonzalez S. Featuring the adventures of Macho and Big Mouth. Number 1 in the series.
Macho and Big Mouth are planning a birthday surprise with cake, party hats, and presents. They wait for their birthday guest, but he is late. The strange happens….. The first of a series planned for this year. Now slated for August 2022
Drama 2M, 2F simple set Evening of One acts
The biology and psychology of some people can cause havoc to ‘normalcy.’ Four short plays showing resilience, defeat, and accommodation to life’s ‘curve balls.’
Four one-acts on the ‘will’ to control one’s destiny and to find solace. Each one-act has an underlining theme of strength against hopelessness, love and unloved, and procreation and barrenness. In the first one-act, we follow an Italian use psychological force as well as a gun to get a doctor to pull the plug on his comatose wife. In the second, a woman in a bar rationalizes the birth of her child through surrogacy. Third, we sense the entrapment from a mentally ill mother who comes back to belittle her daughter’s achievements. In the fourth one-act characters from the previous acts come together to be in a place of ‘purgatory.’
Hanford Multicultural Theater Company production July 23-August 1, 2021
A great play with hardy laughs and with good roles for older actors. Written from the onset after the author heard older actors complain that the only roles available at the time were grandparent type. Not in this play! Perfect roles for actors 55 and up. The character of Jack Katz was recently played by 87 year old Don Brakeman! (To imagine this script was in a drawer forgotten until 2021.)
Read MoreScholarship recipient of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2020. The is about Pedro who loves puppetry and doing puppet shows, but his Latino parents think it is a poor career choice. With mounting pressure from his parents, Pedro wrestles with whether he should continue. Suddenly puppets he has never seen before keep appearing. Then Evilito puppet, an amalgamation of Kermit, Chucky, and Mexican symbolism appears to guide Pedro, but is Evilito guiding him to his doom? Unfortunately the pandemic postponed this show. Hoping to put it on in June 2022 at the Hollywood Fringe.
A staged reading occurred on May 7, 2022, 2 years after being postponed on May 9, 2022 the 140th anniversary of the Mussel Slough Tragedy. Unknown story, except for Hanford locals, where a gunfight in 1880 took the lives of eleven. Poor farmers, unfairly called sand-lappers, worked to make California Central Valley an agricultural mecca, what it is today. However, it came at a price. Trickery, thievery, railroad deception and corruption from railroad executives, and Leland Stanford minimizing the impact of these farmers, justice had to be sought. These hard-working farmers developed a league to pool their finances to plead their case in court. However, the Railroad had other plans. Play in progress for the Kings County Historical Society and all Hanford history buffs. Play reading was postponed from May 9, 2020 due to the pandemic.
Commissioned play by the Kings County Historical Society
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