By Carlos Morton
This leading edge assortment, that includes 3 performs by means of Carlos Morton, spans 5 centuries of Mexican and Mexican American background. within the culture of teatro campesino, those performs current provocative revisions of historic events.
The first play, La Malinche, demanding situations the old checklist of the tragic conflict among Indians and Spaniards. The near-mythical los angeles Malinche, who betrayed her nation for romance of Hernan Cortez yet was once then betrayed through him, is free of the bonds of historical past to have her vengeance. She saves her legacy and destroys the legacy of the conquistador. within the moment play, Dreaming on a Sunday within the Alameda, characters from a mural by way of painter Diego Rivera come to lifestyles to depict 4 centuries of Mexican background. between those, Frida Kahlo, Rivera’s spouse, ultimately steps out of his shadow as a lady and artist in her personal correct. Esperanza, a libretto for an opera, tells the tale of Mexican miners who worked in twentieth-century Silver urban, New Mexico. according to the vintage motion picture Salt of the Earth, this play deftly portrays the problem that foretold the increase of the Chicano movement.
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BISHOP Why did she kill her children? What a repulsive thing! Who is she? Where does she reside? MALINCHE Why, she’s here, there! ) Where? MALINCHE Everywhere! BISHOP Well then, we must stamp out this idolatry! Tell me where she is! MALINCHE Bishop Lizárraga, I’m afraid that’s impossible. 18 CARLOS MORTON BISHOP Why, what do you mean? MALINCHE In order to see La Llorona, one has to believe in her! ) Broken spears lie in the road We ripped the hair from our scalps Our houses are roofless now, the walls red with blood Worms swarm in the streets and plazas, where bodies lay bloated The water has turned red When we drink it, it has the taste of brine We have pounded our heads in despair against the adobe walls Our inheritance, our city, is lost The shields of our warriors were its defense Now they lie useless on the ground We have chewed dry twigs and salt grasses We have filled our mouths with dust and bits of adobe We have eaten lizards, rats, and worms But still we are hungry.
CORTÉS How? By issuing a special dispensation—and believe me, it’ll cost me a pretty penny! Why? So our son will gain respectability. MALINCHE Respectability! CORTÉS If Martín achieves legitimacy, he will be accepted into society and marry into a noble family! MALINCHE I see . . ” 22 CARLOS MORTON CORTÉS And as for you, Marina, what do you say to a fine home in Orizaba with a generous landholding and peons to till it? MALINCHE In Orizaba? Oh, I see it all now! You’ll have two houses, a big house here in Mexico and a small one in Orizaba.
LLORONA No. It’s time for him to die. Why must the white man always win? MALINCHE Because his fate is tied with mine. LLORONA Are you becoming one of them? ) My child, do not delude yourself, they will never accept you! MALINCHE I know who I am, and I belong with him! LLORONA The Spaniard? MALINCHE The man. LLORONA He’s using you. Your knowledge of tribes, customs, and languages. Without you, he is lost, or dead. MALINCHE Let him feel indebted to me. LLORONA He will betray you! Your own people will grow to despise you.