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Jo Jo Sena de Tarnoff is apparent in a arena from "When the Stars Trembled in Rio Puerco." (Eddie Moore/Journal)
A comedy based on articulate histories from the Rio Puerco Valley, which abounding Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe back it premiered beforehand this year, will biking to Albuquerque to bang off the new Latino Theatre Festival, Siembra, at the National Hispanic Cultural Centermost Sept. 25-28.
That center, partnering with 10 amphitheater companies in the state, will date a array of works by Latino/Latina playwrights from again until May 2015.
"When the Stars Trembled in Rio Puerco" is based on a book by Nasario Garcia, who grew up in the basin southeast of Chaco Canyon, with a calligraphy developed by Shebana Coelho, who additionally directs the production. Garcia, who larboard the basin in 1945 to alive in Albuquerque's Martineztown, calm recollections of bodies who lived forth the Rio Puerco from the 1910s to the 1950s.
Those belief are pulled calm onstage by accompany and ancestors who about-face from cogent to re-enacting the assorted incidents, from an Indian arrest to ghosts to religious rituals to government agents cogent families they had to annihilate abounding of their beasts or sheep, because the acreage wouldn't abutment them. Those orders, accumulated with drought, were what emptied the baby villages.
The appearance Bencés, talking to Garcia in the play, says: "Things are altered now, Nasario. We are so far abroad from the acreage … . Before, do you apperceive what we acclimated to do? … We acclimated to go out on the land. Every day. We would go out. Listen to the river. Listen to the silence. Put our anxiety on apple … .
"No amount if the stars were abashed from cold, we would go out on the land, beddy-bye in our blankets and whatnots. Or we would attending up at those stars. Trembling."
The comedy is presented in English, with casual snatches of Spanish befuddled in. It will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 25-27, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28. Tickets are $18, or $15 for students.You can buy tickets at www.nationalhispaniccenter.org or by calling 505-246-2261.
Each achievement will be followed by an accessible mic, back anyone can accompany a keepsake and allotment a adventure from the past, lasting three to four minutes.
A video of the locations in the Rio Puerco area some of the belief took abode will be apparent 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, followed by a catechism and acknowledgment period.
Garcia has appear over 26 books in Spanish and English, 10 of which affair ballad and articulate history.