Objectives

What is Teatro Dominguez and how does it provide "Theatre for Social Change"?

Activities

What has Teatro done in its ten years of existence?

Student Members' Responsibilities

What does a Staff Assistant do

in Teatro Dominguez?

Folktale Page

What are some of the plays that Teatro has created from folktales?

Magic Waters

Martina's Surprise

Trickster Tales

The Magic Forest

Healing Stories -
Student Written!

Carson Local Heroes-
Also Student Written!

Student-Written Work

The Women's Playwright Festival

"The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler - 2003 Cast:

"Teatro Poetry Reading" Fall 2003:

"The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler - 2004 Cast:

Teatro Students, Fall 2004:

Folktale Cast

The Carson Bridge Project

Inspired by Cornerstone Theatre, who did two workshops with our students, Teatro began and developed a "community-based" theatre production that started with interviewing residents of the local community. We interviewed over 120 residents, and Carson funded a professional playwright, José Cruz González, to transfer these stories into a play, "A House Named Eden," which was then produced by the Theatre Arts Department in October 2006 with a 35-member cast that included Carson residents, Dominguez students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Pictures

Play Script by José Cruz González

Rancho Dominguez (A Fourth-Grade Touring Show)

In collaboration with City of Carson, Teatro toured an original play, written by Bill DeLuca, that focused on the life that "Californios" lived in the 1840s in the South Bay. This history play about Manuel Dominguez is narrated by the real-life "charcter," Fr. Patrick McPolin, who managed the Rancho Adobe Museum for thirty years.

Play Script of "Rancho Dominguez" (copywright: Bill DeLuca)