Experience a play reading in the very place in which it is set: Watts
Over 150 years, four families with ancestry in different parts of the world make their home on one particular plot of Southern California land now known as Watts. A host of old curses and blessings, traditions and recipes, loves and betrayals travel down family lines from the 19th to the 21st century, forcing each successive generation to ask in times of hardship, “Should I stay or should I go?” Los Angeles native Evangeline Ordaz crafts a rich and complex web of diverse characters who through triumph and despair discover how deeply they are rooted in the dreams of their ancestors and the land on which they stand.
This is a FREE event
hosted by Center Theatre Group,
Watts Village Theater Company and
The Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Parking at WLCAC is free
4:00 pm Optional Tour*
5:00 pm Reading
7:00 pm Meet the artists and Reception
*Join us early for a free, docent-led tour of WLCAC’s unique, experiential three-part Civil Rights exhibit. Your reservation for the play reading will grant you admission to the tour, but please note the starting time of each event.
The California Plays Project
Fascinated by the landscape, people and politics of our home state, Center Theatre Group recently commissioned four Los Angeles playwrights to write four plays on California themes. To aid in each play’s development, CTG is partnering with four Los Angeles cultural institutions to bring these California stories to different corners of our city—and to make a wide range of Los Angeles audiences such as yourself a part of the creative process. For more information about the California Plays Project, please visit us at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org/CAplaysproject.
Over 150 years, four families with ancestry in different parts of the world make their home on one particular plot of Southern California land now known as Watts. A host of old curses and blessings, traditions and recipes, loves and betrayals travel down family lines from the 19th to the 21st century, forcing each successive generation to ask in times of hardship, “Should I stay or should I go?” Los Angeles native Evangeline Ordaz crafts a rich and complex web of diverse characters who through triumph and despair discover how deeply they are rooted in the dreams of their ancestors and the land on which they stand.
This is a FREE event
hosted by Center Theatre Group,
Watts Village Theater Company and
The Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Parking at WLCAC is free
4:00 pm Optional Tour*
5:00 pm Reading
7:00 pm Meet the artists and Reception
*Join us early for a free, docent-led tour of WLCAC’s unique, experiential three-part Civil Rights exhibit. Your reservation for the play reading will grant you admission to the tour, but please note the starting time of each event.
The California Plays Project
Fascinated by the landscape, people and politics of our home state, Center Theatre Group recently commissioned four Los Angeles playwrights to write four plays on California themes. To aid in each play’s development, CTG is partnering with four Los Angeles cultural institutions to bring these California stories to different corners of our city—and to make a wide range of Los Angeles audiences such as yourself a part of the creative process. For more information about the California Plays Project, please visit us at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org/CAplaysproject.