Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
The Barber of East L.A.
Directed by MacArthur Genius Fellow, Luis Alfaro
May 2 – 3, 2009, Saturday at 8:00 p.m. & Sunday at 4:00 p.m.
General Admission $16 and other discounts available
This new full-length play is a lively, absorbing tale about queer and punk Latinos living as the freaks in Eastside L.A in the face of everyday annihilation. It delivers a compelling mix of fictional characters and real events, political communities and identities framed against the tumultuous period of the Reagan-era 1980s. Based on a real-life local heroine, now 75, it is the story of Chonch’s rough ride through love, a broken heart, jail time and life as a butch barber in a tough hood — a moving look at estrangement and reconciliation between family and community told through sketches, music and energetic multi-role performances.
Jump-Start Performance Co., 108 Blue Star, located in the Blue Star Arts Complex at the corner of S. Alamo and Probandt. For more information call 210-227-5867 or visit www.jump-start.org.
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the National Performance Network’s Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of the National Performance Network include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org.