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Mexican Plays
Elyse Dodgson
A Mexican Trilogy
by Evelina Fernandez
Highlights
120 mins Present Day Role(s) for Latine Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes
Awards & Recognition
Drama Critics Circle
WINNER! 2013 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award
Synopsis
Faith, Hope and Charity comprise Evelina Fernandez's series, A Mexican Trilogy .
The plays center around the Moraleses, a Mexican-American family.
The trilogy deals in part with the impact that inspirational historical figures have upon the lives of the Morales family.
Those figures specifically are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Pope John Paul II.
Faith is the first play in the trilogy.
Set a couple decades after the Mexican Revolution, Faith is the story of a family faced with the challenge of retaining ancient traditions and cultural memory in the midst of social and political upheaval.
Hope, part II of the trilogy, takes place in the 1960's when a new young president, a national crisis and the loss of innocence follows the Morales family and the nation.
In Charity, the third and final installment, the world mourns the death of Pope John Paul II, the centenarian matriarch of the family is visited by the ghost of her great grandson slain in Iraq, as a newly arrived relative from Mexico suddenly appears.
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| GRANDMOTHER 60, she imparts the ancient words of wisdom handed down from her ancestors. (Can be double cast by the actor who plays Lupe) |
| YOUNG ESPERANZA 15, she is strong and determined to get the man she loves. (Can be double cast by the actor who plays Elena) |
| YOUNG SILVESTRE 20, runs away with Young Esperanza. (Can be double cast by the actor who plays Freddie) |
| ESPERANZA 30s, grown with three daughters. She tries to raise her daughters with an iron hand while her husband works in the mine. |
| SILVESTRE 40, Esperanza’s husband, is a copper miner and becoming disillusioned with the working conditions. He begins to organize the miners. |
| FAITH 16, their oldest daughter, is as strong willed and determined as Esperanza. She wants to be a singer more than anything else in the world. |
| CHARITY 15, their middle daughter, is patriotic and loves President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and wants to be American, not Mexican. |
| ELENA 13, their youngest daughter is stuck between childhood and womanhood. She pees in bed, farts in her sleep and can’t keep a secret. |
| LUPE 50, Esperanza’s friend and confidant, has sensuous thoughts about men and flirts with Ricardo Flores. She is left to watch the girls when Esperanza has to return to Mexico. |
| RICARDO FLORES 40, a local radio personality who promises to make Faith’s dreams come true. |
| FREDDIE 18, falls in love with Charity and leaves to fight in WWII. |
| CHARLIE 15, has a mad crush on Faith, but she thinks he’s a kid. |
| ELENA 30s, now married with children of her own, must face her husband's infidelity. |
| CARLOS |
| (CHARLIE IN PART I) is a good provider, but cheats on Elena and beats his children. |
| ENRIQUE 40s, Carlos’ friend and Elena’s confidante, is married to a woman who suffers from depression. |
| GINA 17, Elena’s oldest daughter, is feisty and opinionated and bosses her younger siblings around. |
| BETTY 16, is in love with President Kennedy and imagines having long conversations with him. |
| RUDY 18, is in love with Gina. |
| JOHNNY 15, thinks he’s a ladies man. |
| BOBBY 14, is kind and quiet. Carlos calls him a “Mama’s boy.” |
| MARI 40s, suffers from melancholy, Enrique’s wife. |
| JACK President John F. Kennedy (can be played in silhouette). |
| FIDEL Fidel Castro (can be played in silhouette). |
| GINA 50s, mourns her son’s death in the Iraq war and is obsessed with Pope John Paul II funeral services. |
+ 8 more characters
Publication
A Mexican Trilogy is a play written by Evelina Fernandez and published by Samuel French .
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