Malinche Show

Description

Written by the renowned Mexican playwright, Willebaldo Lopez. This historical farce has a plot based on real events in the history of Mexico and taken to the scene in a fun way. Always generating laughter in the audience, but with a reflective background in the style of Nahual Theater productions.

"Malinche Show" is a historical musical farce that analyzes a perspective of the history of Mexico and its relationship with other countries of the American continent. Emphasize how television, media, and foreign influence can dramatically change the thinking and life of a human being. This play offers a vision of what it means to be children of Malinche, heirs of Malinche, and that can cause complex insecurity in the life and mood of the Mexican people.

The work addresses how people may feel intimidated or ashamed to speak their language,
Spanish, and why they do not want to be judged and criticized against foreign people. Also, "Malinche Show" raises how influential people in the fields of government, religion, technology, and business pressure the main characters of the play, the people, to participate and alienate in the vast machinery of "La Malinche." This mechanical web offers a good life, where everyone can be famous and rich, but they must pay a high price that is losing their own identity if they want to be part of the "Malinche Show."
Teatro Nahual is proud to present, "Malinche Show" after the great success in television of the series of "Hernan" and "La Malinche" in the Mexican Republic. This theatrical montage features performances by Abraham Mijangos, Blanca Nieto, Luis Nicolas, Alicia Sauceda, Gerardo Fernandez, John Cabrera, Eugenio Rocca, Gregorio Montes and Alejandra
Trigueros.

The musical is created by Isidro Jimenez and the voice of the soprano Divina Ortega. The
talented Bridget Willy designs the scenery. The artistic direction is from the director and founder of Teatro Nahual, Veronica Meza.

Teatro Nahual is a non-profit organization founded in Santa Clara County in 2003. The
mission is to provide education and entertainment through plays that represent Latin
American culture and customs in California and the United States. The productions of this community theater group have the purpose of creating a social conscience and establishing a dialogue that allows informing about cultural, social, and political situations, at the same time that the audience spends a pleasant moment to enjoy theatrical works entirely in Spanish. Nahual Theater is made up of actors, musicians, educators, designers, and people from the community interested in joining efforts to promote the magic of theater. Acting classes are also taught in Spanish for children, youth, and adults since 2004.

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