This is a new play by Luis Valdez that had a good run one year ago, so it's back again in this revival that gives theater-goers another opportunity to see it. It's based in the Santa Clara Valley in 1941, and follows the paths of the Japanese Yamaguchi family and the Mexican Montanos family, both sharecroppers, both trying to provide for their children. But their precarious lives are complicated further when each families' oldest child, Ben and Teruko, fall in love. Then things get chaotic when the Japanese army strikes Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Valdez infuses this "kabuki corrido" with issues of rebellion, patriotism, loyalty, identity, love and fear.
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This is a new play by Luis Valdez that had a good run one year ago, so it's back again in this revival that gives theater-goers another opportunity to see it. It's based in the Santa Clara Valley in 1941, and follows the paths of the Japanese Yamaguchi family and the Mexican Montanos family, both sharecroppers, both trying to provide for their children. But their precarious lives are complicated further when each families' oldest child, Ben and Teruko, fall in love. Then things get chaotic when the Japanese army strikes Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Valdez infuses this "kabuki corrido" with issues of rebellion, patriotism, loyalty, identity, love and fear.
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