←Recommendations of A La Roro

A beautiful piece, full of lush language and wonderfully developed characters, exposing and exploring the toughest subject matter, with humor and grace. If I taught middle or high school, I'd have my students read this play in their classroom, as it approaches our world in a way that is accessible and articulate to all ages. This is such a great play. Bravo!

This is just a beautiful take on immigration as seen through a young boy and his nightmares. The fantasy gets just frightening enough before Michael/Miguel stops being scared and young audiences will be drawn into it. The debate about who has the right to scare the boy is both humorous and poignant. The use of a child's night terror perfectly highlights the political climate of our time. It's sweet with a little ghostly chill.

A wonderful nightmare about acceptance, equality, and the straddling the line of two cultures. Art Por Diaz creates a world where having to choose becomes an humorous exercise in impossibility. There is so much heart and tenderness here that children will love, with whispers of the themes that parents of bicultural children have to reckon with. A beautiful play about a boy and his two would-be scary monsters. This is a play that needs to be seen in more children's theatres.

ADORABLE! A fantastic (and family friendly) short piece that takes on hard issues and still manages to make your heart melt. A LA RORO is a must read and an absolute winner for any theatre. Highly recommend.

I really love this play! Anything that can take complex social issues and deliver them to an audience of all ages in a honest, simple, and compelling way, you have a winner. Really well written, would love to see this produced, I'd love to take my kids to see this produced!

Quite honestly, this play is adorable, and perfect for young audiences. The set up is simple yet unique, and the bilingual aspect is both important to the play (many viewers will learn something watching a performance) and not (everything that makes a well-written play well written is here, regardless of the languages). I would definitely program this in a festival of one-acts for young audiences.

I was lucky to see a reading of this play at the KCACTF Festival in Denver. Heartfelt, bitingly relevant, and incredibly playful in only ten pages, this play lets us into one night in the life of a young Mexican American boy. It reminds us of the monsters under our bed we feared as children, and the monsters in life some may fear as adults.

A delightful ride with poignant themes of Mexican/American relations. Beautiful writing.

This is a delightful play for young audiences--honest, playful and funny. But its political undertones make this piece worth producing: the discussion of a young Mexican American boy's two-ness will resonate with children who don't see their identity represented enough, and will open up the minds of those who do.

A really incredible young audiences play that manages to be timely and political at the same time. That's not a mark against it, of course: for many young people today, their age can't shield them from the questions of identity and belonging facing them in school and on the news. A beautiful, simply play about growing up bicultural, and forging your own third path.