Love, Lies and Revolution Reviews

                                                           THE WAFER

A modern political drama with Biblical overtones originally inspired by the Cuban Revolution.  Juan Castia and his group of guerrillas are in their eleventh hour when they make the desperate decision to sacrifice their leader in an attempt to give the people a martyr.In doing so they are able to rally the nation to overthrow the present fascist regime.  What the people and the disciples of Castia don’t know, is that someone else has taken the place of their leader at the firing squad.  Castia is forced to live with the knowledge and guilt that he is a false messiah.  

 RED COLOMBIAN SKY

An existential view of revolution from a woman’s perspective in which the audience witnesses the last night between a young soldier and the general’s concubine.  Set in the midst of the fall of Bogotá, Marina, who represents both lover and mother, seduces a young counter-revolutionary, Lucas, to gain intelligence for her capture, the general.  Yet both are doomed.  In the process, they find their lives finally fulfilled in a fleeting moment of love. 

 

 

Love, Lies and Revolution

Nosotros American Latino Theatre is back with a new name, the Ricardo Montalbán Repertory Theatre Company, and another double bill of one-acts, this one improving promisingly upon the fall's. Production values are limited for Arthur Meiselman's "The Wafer" and Katrina Elias' "Red Colombian Sky," but the former, especially, is stylishly staged.

— Darryl H. Miller
Feb. 9, 2007
Los Angeles Times