Teatro Dominguez
Bill DeLuca
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- What is Teatro Dominguez and how does it
provide "Theatre for Social Change"?
- What has Teatro done in its ten years of
existence?
- What does a Staff Assistant
do
- in Teatro Dominguez?
Folktale Page
What are some of the plays that Teatro has created
from folktales?
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:
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.
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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)
The Dominguez Bridge Project
With our second community-based
play, we interviewed faculty, staff, alumni and students covering the
history of our university from its origins in the late 1960s. Two
alumna company members, Brenda Killian and Naomi Buckley, created The
Little College on the Hill, which revealed what makes Dominguez Hills a
unique place. The show performed at CSUDH Theatre Arts in October
2008.
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Play
Script by Brenda and Naomi
The South Bay Bridge Project
<>The company decided to
adapt a
classic, so we chose "Everyman." Everyman represents all of
humanity. He is informed by Death, another character, that he must face
his Master and present an accounting of his life. Everyman pleads
with the other characters: Kindred, Beauty, Strength, Discretion and
Goods to go with him to his grave. But the only one who joins him
on his final journey is Goods Deeds. The point is that we are
only as good as the good we do.
We wanted to interview people who do Good Deeds, so in 2008 we had
story circles with people who work in community service organizations,
ranging from Senior Citizen centers to those assisting victims of AIDS
or domestic abuse. We met many wonderful people.
After four drafts, we completed "Everyman, The Musical: The South Bay
Bridge Project," and performed it for two weeks at the University
Theatre in April 2009!
<>
The Brenda Project
Drawn from interviews with
breast cancer survivors in the South Bay, this play was inspired by the
courageous battle against cancer made by our fallen
colleague Brenda Arrieta Killian. Written by fellow alumnae Naomi
Buckley and Susan Thrasher, "For Then We Are Strong" is a story about
finding strength and love even in the darkest moments. A group of
women wake up in a strange dream world. They learn about their futures
and fates through flashbacks and conversations with each other as they
are guided toward finding their true selves, by Mama, a kindly woman
who helps each of them. Through vignettes, monologues and scenes we
hear the story of seven women and their struggle with breast cancer and
life.
Play
Script by Naomi Buckley and Susan Thrasher
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and Cast
of Characters Page
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