Silvia Gonzalez S.

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In his old age, Joaquin Murrieta recounts the story of his life during the brutal days of the California Gold Rush to a group of strangers. What began as a hopeful journey with his brother José—to stake a claim in the Sierra foothills and build a new life—quickly descends into violence and injustice. After repeated claim jumping and relentless harassment drive them from their mine, the brothers turn to trading goods with miners in hopes of surviving the chaos of the frontier.

Their fragile peace is shattered when a group of vigilantes, led by a vengeful mule seller, launches a savage attack. José is lynched, Joaquin is viciously whipped, and his wife is brutally raped and murdered. Left as the sole survivor and denied justice by indifferent authorities, Joaquin abandons the life he once sought and sets out on a relentless path of vengeance.

Gathering a diverse band of allies, Joaquin wages a campaign against those who prey upon the weak, igniting fear and turmoil across Gold Rush California. As his legend grows, the governor dispatches ruthless bounty hunter Harry Love and his Rangers to hunt him down. Amid betrayal, bloodshed, and deception—including Love’s claim of killing Murrieta and presenting a grisly trophy as proof—the truth becomes clouded by myth.

Yet the legend refuses to die. In the twilight of his life, Joaquin still believes that Harry Love is searching for him, and that the line between justice and vengeance remains as thin as it was in the lawless days of the Gold Rush.

Maybis' and Earl's son thinks they bicker too much. He sends them to therapy. Maybis then takes up sky diving.

Pietro forces a doctor to let his wife die.

A gang member wonders where he went wrong bringing a baby into the world.

Short play. A Greek chorus chimes in the poeticness of this script about a Mexican Indian woman. She marries a Spanish soldier while he is in Mexico. They have children together. The Spanish soldier is summoned home to Spain but is forbidden to bring his wife with him. She is considered a savage. He begs to bring his half-Spanish children. He can, but this will take the children away from the mother. She loses her sanity over this and does the unthinkable. Based on the Llorona myth.

Shirley and Jack are friends living in a senior housing community, sharing a home and pooling their Social Security checks to make ends meet. Their arrangement works—until Shirley raises a sobering concern: if one of them dies, the other may not be able to afford the bills alone.

After weighing their options, they make a practical—if unromantic—decision to marry, ensuring access to each other’s benefits. But what begins as a financial solution quickly unravels. The two clash over their living habits, their independence, and the stark reality that the law requires them to be married for nine months before survivor benefits apply.

Then the unthinkable happens: Jack dies—just three months into the marriage.

With six months still to go before she can qualify for his benefits, Shirley faces an impossible choice. Desperate to survive, she conceals Jack’s death and embarks on a bizarre and darkly comic plan to preserve his body in their living room, drawing inspiration from ancient Egyptian mummification techniques.

As the clock ticks down, Shirley’s precarious situation grows even more complicated when Jack’s estranged former stepson unexpectedly arrives for a visit—threatening to expose everything.

Short play. Tina wants to increase her breast size from 2000 cc to 3000 cc. Her sister Nancy believes this is a mistake and accuses Tina to be addicted to plastic surgery. Waiting for the plastic surgeon to enter the exam room, Nancy urges her sister to reconstruct her life, not her breasts.

A short play. A girl discovers she has a retinitis pigmentosa and that she will go completely blind before her Quinceañera. A Quinceañera is similar to a Sweet sixteen event. In the Latino culture, it is a very cherished tradition. With the eye condition, Lucinda does not want to have the Quinceañera like she did before. Her best friend wants her to do it anyway and finds ways to persuade her.

"She shows great inventiveness in devising these characters, basing them on familiar figures that are easily as fanciful and flamboyant as those in the Lewis Carroll classic." - Variety

Author: This is a Latinx, San Fernando Valley girl version of Alice in Wonderland with a touch of the Wizard of Oz.

A Latinx, San Fernando Valley girl version of Alice in Wonderland with a touch of the Wizard of Oz.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY: Pearl Hart robs the stagecoach in Arizona Territory in 1899. She wore pants (pantaloons) during the robbery, and this shocked the nation! Her robbery and pants created a national outcry for women to stay clear of the west. Pearl becomes a celebrity and takes full advantage of it. However, one judge forces equity for women and Pearl gets placed in the Yuma Territorial Prison. Pearl is confined with women who don't like her and the advantages she has with being a celebrity. The women of color cellmates find a way to teach her a lesson.

If a woman could be a bullfighter, then Girl would have succeeded. Instead, she teaches a broken, old miserable wannabe.

A broken, wannabe bullfighter buys a painting from a blind man and from the oils a flamenco dancer and guitar player come out of it to sing and dance for him. The boarding house maid appears to be educated in the art of bullfighting and educates him in the techniques. Later they become lovers. However, it is not until he makes love to a minotaur woman is he able to fight in the ring.

Henry, a well-adjusted Mexican-American teen, lives in a small Arizona town with his parents. His mother encourages Henry to assimilate, but his dad has a harder time learning the language and customs. Since the death of the young daughter, he feels haunted, isolated, and cut off from the rest of his family. Henry’s abysmal command of Spanish fuels these feelings and his father is often abusive. Through the play, Blue Mexican peasants appear representing migrant life and the demand of a dual culture existence. Oliverio, a warm and funny old farmworker, embeds messages in his poetry to help Henry understand something of his father’s feelings of pain and guilt. (The Mexican-American version of Death of Salesman)

"The play is about the human spirit, bribery, compassion, the unquestioned life, humor despite the odds, prejudice, and the slippery slope of moral ambiguity." - The Mercury News San Francisco

"The passion of the five immigrants transcends language; their longing for their destination is palpable in their physicality. Despite the grim subject matter, scenes in the boxcar are rarely heavy-handed. Thought-provoking issues sit alongside humor. - Backstage NYC

Looking for a life in the United States and on a path of hope, five Mexicans and a teen from El Salvador wait for someone, even the border patrol, to open their sealed boxcar left in the Texas desert during a human smuggling event.

Border patrol officer Roberto is just doing his job deporting undocumented workers along with his partner Bill. Meanwhile, the boxcar occupants are dreaming and eager for jobs and feel their smuggler can do no wrong, and they will safely get across. However, hours go by and the temperatures rises. During interrogation the events in the boxcar are recounted by the El Salvadorian youth