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Fade (Saracho)

  • Tanya Saracho
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573705724

"Saracho's writing is so sharp, full lives take shape with an economy of words [...] a powerful piece with a fresh voice and a bright future."

Denver Post

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. 

Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.
REVIEWS:

"Saracho's writing is so sharp, full lives take shape with an economy of words [...] a powerful piece with a fresh voice and a bright future."

 Denver Post

"The play is about heritage and status and identity, and particularly about how important those things are in cultures that feel oppressed and misunderstood."

 Hartford Courant

Premiere Production: Fade premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in Denver, CO in February 2016 under the direction of Jerry Ruiz.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Latino Actor(s)

  • LUCIA - 28, Mexican-born, acculturated. When in Mexico one would called her a "Fresa" but here, she's just an Americanized Mexican who navigates the codeswitching between Spanish and English as well as the rest of her (globalized) generation.

  • ABEL - Early 30's, born in the U.S. Mexican-American but quite Mexicanized. Born and raised in LA, proud of his Mexican heritage.

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    When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. 

    Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.

    		$24.95

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