Theater

The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea

The Hungry Woman – A Mexican Medea, 2019.
From left to right: Quique Sánchez Pizano, Humberto Avila, Chela Sandoval, Cristina Frías, Rose Portillo, Moises Castro, & Dianna Redd; back center: Luis Duarte & Micaela Díaz Sánchez; front center: Marlene Beltrán Cuauhtin.

Recent Presentation

Staged Reading
May 31 and June 1, 2019
Multicultural Center
UC Santa Barbara


 

In "The Hungry Woman," an apocalyptic play written at the end of the millennium, Moraga uses mythology and an intimate realism to describe the embattled position of Chicanos and Chicanas, not only in the United States but in relation to one another. Drawing from the Greek Medea and the Mexican myth of La Llorona, she portrays a woman gone mad in the struggle between her longing for another woman and for the Indian nation denied to her. 

From the original production, directed by the playwright and Adelina Anthony at The Pigott Theater, Stanford University. May 2005. Set & Costume concepts by Celia Herrera Rodríguez
The Hungry Woman - A Mexican Medea, directed by Dora Arreola at The Lyceum Theater, Arizona State University. October 2014
From the original production, directed by the playwright and Adelina Anthony at The Pigott Theater, Stanford University. May 2005. VIVIS as MEDEA and Shayok Misha Chowdhury as CHAC-MOOL. Set by Celia Herrera Rodríguez.