Freedom vs. Family
As part of UHeights ( University Heights) Theatre Alliance, ACT theatre in conjunction with ESE TEATRO, presents an online live reading of Shoe, by Maisela Trevino Orta. The play examines the family dynamics and gender roles within a dysfunctional Mexican American family led by a matriarch, who manipulates her grown children to remain under her roof, as a way to deal with the enormous grief, created when her spouse abandoned her and her children twelve years ago. Drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”, the play creates an atmosphere of confinement and constriction, as the protagonist yearns for a life outside of the family’s double-wide trailer in Texas
Shoe,A live reading by Marisela Trevino Orta, Sunday Nov. 15, 5 pm. Tickets https://order.acttheatre.org/shoe/11715?mc_cid=f72716da9e&mc_eid=454f96f273
For more information about the playwright see: https://newplayexchange.org/users/148/marisela-trevi%C3%B1o-orta