¡O Cascadia!

by Ramon Esquivel

For Ayo, Eshana, Hyun, and Tlaloc, discovering each other among the waters, forests, and mountains of the Pacific Northwest offers glimpses of the lives they yearn to live, and the hope that together all things are possible. But are they? As expectations of culture, family, society, and religion threaten to pull them apart, four friends struggle to hold their fragile world together, even as the earth breaks...

For Ayo, Eshana, Hyun, and Tlaloc, discovering each other among the waters, forests, and mountains of the Pacific Northwest offers glimpses of the lives they yearn to live, and the hope that together all things are possible. But are they? As expectations of culture, family, society, and religion threaten to pull them apart, four friends struggle to hold their fragile world together, even as the earth breaks apart.

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¡O Cascadia!

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  • Heidi Kraay: ¡O Cascadia! by Ramon Esquivel
    “

    This play is a spiritual, sexual, environmental and intergenerational awakening. The world needs this play in order to find healing. I hope it gets done everywhere so we can all grow from this enormous and visceral (yet grounded and genuinely funny and uplifting) experience that Esquivel creates.

    This play is a spiritual, sexual, environmental and intergenerational awakening. The world needs this play in order to find healing. I hope it gets done everywhere so we can all grow from this enormous and visceral (yet grounded and genuinely funny and uplifting) experience that Esquivel creates.

    ”
  • Max Kennel: ¡O Cascadia! by Ramon Esquivel
    “

    This show was a grounded, yet surreal exploration of the human condition in relation to its environment and how it can free or constrict the desires of the heart and soul. Esquivel explores this through poignant scenes of emotional intimacy with the core cast in a way that delves into their sexualities, racial backgrounds, and how they deal with the aftermath COVID-19 pandemic that kept me gripped the whole way through. My day was made better by reading it and I will be thinking about it long after today.

    This show was a grounded, yet surreal exploration of the human condition in relation to its environment and how it can free or constrict the desires of the heart and soul. Esquivel explores this through poignant scenes of emotional intimacy with the core cast in a way that delves into their sexualities, racial backgrounds, and how they deal with the aftermath COVID-19 pandemic that kept me gripped the whole way through. My day was made better by reading it and I will be thinking about it long after today.

    ”

Development History

  • Reading, The Cascadia Project, 2020
  • Residency, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2019
  • Workshop, Seattle Repertory Theatre, 2017