Fade (Saracho)
by Tanya Saracho

Name: Fade (Saracho)
Brand: Tanya Saracho
SKU: 9780573705724
Rating: 3.78 (28 reviews)

Fade (Saracho) Book Cover — Fade (Saracho) Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Latine Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

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 quickly 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 Latine community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.

Press Reviews

"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

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Abel Early 30's, born in the U.S. Mexican-American but quite Mexicanized. Born and raised in LA, proud of his Mexican heritage.	male	30s	Early 30's, born in the U.S. Mexican-American but quite Mexicanized. Born and raised in LA, proud of his Mexican heritage.
Lucia 28, Mexican-born, acculturated. When in Mexico one would call 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.	female	—	28, Mexican-born, acculturated. When in Mexico one would call 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.