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A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 1m
Tanya Saracho
A modern adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, set in modern-day Northern Mexico.
MAITE – a landownerANITA – Maite’s daughter, twenty-threeVALERIA – Maite’s eldest daughter, thirty-three DUNIA – a maidLOPEZ – a “merchant”
“Tells an important story... [Saracho] leverages a literary classic to spotlight the wrenching effects of Mexico’s drug wars.” – Austin 360
“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, Read More
“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, Read More
“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, Read More
“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
Behind the scenes of Teatro Vista's El Nogalar
Teatro Vista's El Nogalar
Tanya Saracho discusses her play El Nogalar
Tanya Saracho was born in Sinaloa, México. She is a playwright and television writer who's worked on How To Get Away With Murder and HBO's Looking, among other shows. Currently, she serves as the creator and showrunner of the series VIDA on Starz. She is also developing a tel ...
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