Abstract-black comedy 3F, 3M one set one act

A dysfunctional family on Father’s Day subconsciously want to kill each other and do, several times.

It’s Father’s day and everyone gathers to give presents to grandpa and dad. Grandma has an anger-thing going towards grandpa. Grandpa retaliates by shooting her. In that moment of frenzy, all are shocked. Then the action picks up as if nothing happened. This continues with a conflict between dad and mom, and the son and daughter. Then the daughter, has had enough. She puts the gun to head to kill herself. The family tries to talk her out of it, but their heart isn’t really not into it. A play with an anti-gun message.

Produced at Mid Michigan College (1995), and a staged reading a Chicago Dramatists Workshop.

With this weekend’s production of The Migrant Farmworker’s Son, popular drama teacher Jane Martin is once again bringing something innovative to theater at Sonoma Valley High School. The play by Silvia González explores the multi-layered tensions in the family of a man and his wife who emigrated from Mexico to Arizona in the hopes of finding a better life. We see Henry, the teenage son, dealing with questions and issues inherent in the challenge of living in dual cultures – a challenge that is experienced daily by many students in the Sonoma Valley. How do their parents’ language, traditions and values relate to their own lives?

All the Latino actors in the cast are having their first–ever stage experience. They spoke about how working with the play has helped them better understand their own families and wrestle with these challenges.

Read more at Sonoma Valley Sun

El Vagon (BOXCAR) at Frida Kahlo Theater in Los Angeles. A book signing with Silvia and five other authors of BORDERS ON STAGE where El Vagon (BOXCAR)  is included.  Book signing on November 2 at 4pm with the play El Vagon at 6pm.

“The passion of the five immigrants transcends language; their longing for their destination is palpable in their physicality.” -Backstage

“…a moving snapshot from the front lines…elegantly designed and fiercely acted…” -Village Voice

Tragedy 7 M Unit Full length

“Looking for a life in the United States, FIVE Mexicans and a teen from El Salvador wait for someone, even the border patrol, to open their sealed boxcar in the insufferable heat.”

Set in a Texas, Border patrol officer Roberto is just doing his job and deporting undocumented workers along with his partner Bill. Meanwhile, five Mexicans and an Salvadorian teen are riding in a sealed boxcar to ready employers. They feel they are going to get across safely until the engine develops mechanical problems. They are left in the desert and each hour the temperature rises. Manual pleads for all to remain calm and conserve their air until rescue. The others disagree and try everything they can to escape. When border officers reach them, it is too late for all but one man.

Set in Texas, BOXCAR/EL VAGON is based on a true story

By Michelle Zenarosa
On-line Forty-Niner

Movimiento Estudiantil de Teatro y Artes or META brought to the University Theater, an empowering and realistic story not only about Latin-Americans, but also about all Americans who have faced the affects of assimilation.

META’s new production “The Migrant Farmworker’s Son,” which opened Friday captured all the drama of today’s modern world, where the word “immigrant” is a social taboo, and it is an everyday struggle to break free from the past while fighting to preserve one’s cultural heritage.

Although the play is mainly a drama, humorous one-liners sprinkled throughout the play brought laughter to the audience. Written by Silvia Gonzales and directed by Emiliano Torres, the balance of tears and laughter ingeniously and successfully gave the play its character.

The play opens with the cast working in the fields when a terrible accident occurs. It goes on to tell a story of a Mexican family’s struggles to unite in a sea of culture clashes. The father, played by Rudy Marquez, longs for Mexico; the mother, played by Dina Jaregui is accused of valuing American culture more than her own, becoming more like a “gringo;” and the lost son with two names– an American and a Mexican– that knows nothing of his heritage.

Read more at California State University, Long Beach