El Nogalar
by Tanya Saracho

Name: El Nogalar
Brand: Tanya Saracho
SKU: 9780573705564
Rating: 4.03 (3 reviews)

El Nogalar Book Cover — El Nogalar Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

105 mins Present Day Role(s) for Latine Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings

Synopsis

In present-day Northern Mexico, the Galvan family returns to reclaim their pecan orchard after matriarch Maité has squandered the family's money.

Tragically, the land they once knew has slowly been taken over by a drug war.

This modern adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard explores the complex relationships among a mother and her daughters as four women face the challenges of a dangerous and rapidly changing environment.

Press Reviews

"Tanya Saracho’s reworking of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard as El Nogalar (“The Pecan Orchard”) crafts a more complex and colorful picture of a nation not only in a constant struggle to come to terms with its neighbor to the north, for sure, but also with its own troubled past and present."
— New City Stage

"El Nogalar provides a strikingly intimate and welcoming bilingual context for examining social class in contemporary Mexico, paralleling the themes explored by Chekhov in The Cherry Orchard's Russia more than a century ago."
— The Austin Chronicle

"El Nogalar lives both in Cekhov’s world and Saracho’s world, where class pressure and social turmoil threatens traditional families' land and lifestyle in contemporary Mexico."
— Chicago Critic

"Marvelous!...Tanya Saracho is a very detailed writer, and one who brings the Mexican flavor to her work as well as a look from the female perspective."
— Around the Town Chicago

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Anita Maite’s daughter, twenty-three	female	—	Maite’s daughter, twenty-three
Valeria Maite’s eldest daughter, thirty-three	female	—	Maite’s eldest daughter, thirty-three
Dunia a maid	—	—	a maid
Lopez a “merchant”	—	—	a “merchant”
Maite a landowner	—	—	a landowner