The old-fashioned film projector creates vintage look of the City of Los Angeles in the 1950s in the theatre. Scrolls is uncovered across the back wall of the stage, depicting Chavez Ravine, a hillside community of Mexican Americans in L.A. In the stressful atmosphere, a women is wiped out of her home, and the Chaves Ravine is bulldozed. Suddenly, the theatre is lighten up, and filled with big yelling out of a baseball game. We are still in the place, where used to be Chavez Ravine, but now is Dodger Stadium. And the story of this little known history of Chavez Ravine’s catastrophe begins…
The play of Chavez Ravine is brought by the Latin-American troupe Culture Clash. With mixed genres of history and comedy, the play introduces process that how the Chavez Ravine community was stolen by the corrupted government with Red Scare tactics for a new baseball stadium, which is now the Dodger Stadium. Though the story covers the time period from 1950s to 1980s, the Culture Clash starts the play in 1981, when Fernando …show more content…
Everything happens under the Mexican folk music and American country music. The music floats in the air, around every character and depicts them with sense of humor. Culture Clash tries to make audience laugh every second. Staging is also wonderful. The dark lighting supply, the pictures of Chavez Ravine hillside, and the authentic Mexican American cloths of that era, all contributes to create a vintage atmosphere, which bring the audience back to the time when the poor but loving community is not evicted away from Chavez Ravine, and then feel the true happiness shown on the actors’ and actress’ face. The sadness of the story, and the laugh-making nature of the script, Culture Clash manages to crease special satirical effect on questioning the urban power structure and social
The play of Chavez Ravine is brought by the Latin-American troupe Culture Clash. With mixed genres of history and comedy, the play introduces process that how the Chavez Ravine community was stolen by the corrupted government with Red Scare tactics for a new baseball stadium, which is now the Dodger Stadium. Though the story covers the time period from 1950s to 1980s, the Culture Clash starts the play in 1981, when Fernando …show more content…
Everything happens under the Mexican folk music and American country music. The music floats in the air, around every character and depicts them with sense of humor. Culture Clash tries to make audience laugh every second. Staging is also wonderful. The dark lighting supply, the pictures of Chavez Ravine hillside, and the authentic Mexican American cloths of that era, all contributes to create a vintage atmosphere, which bring the audience back to the time when the poor but loving community is not evicted away from Chavez Ravine, and then feel the true happiness shown on the actors’ and actress’ face. The sadness of the story, and the laugh-making nature of the script, Culture Clash manages to crease special satirical effect on questioning the urban power structure and social