The Canal Project reached its completion this weekend with workshop performances at Pickleweed Community Center in the Canal district of San Rafael. Here’s playwright Marisela Treviño Orta from her blog:
I’ve been working on this project for more than a year, and I have to say the workshop production was my favorite part of the [...]

We had two workshop performances of American Triage (a new play about the immigration raids in San Rafael’s Canal District) over the weekend. We held a reception after the first performance, and a great Q&A session after the second. Dr. JuanCarlos Arauz from The Canal Alliance participated in the Q&A, answering questions about [...]

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Her second play, “American Triage,” still in workshop, came out of the experience of working with these students – particularly after the immigration raids last year, as they took place during the period she was teaching the class.
“I really got to really know these kids and their families,” Treviño Orta says. “When MTC first approached [...]

Actor Nicole Disson on American Triage, which opens this Saturday night at 7:30pm:
We are now in in our final stages of rehearsals, where all the different elements piece together, including sound, costumes, set, … fun to watch the pages come to life, and to take part in the process. At today’s rehearsal I [...]

Rehearsals have begun for American Triage, the workshop production that is the culmination of The Canal Project. The playwright, Marisela Treviño Orta, blogged about the rehearsal process so far:
So last night I arrive a little bit late to rehearsal and the actors were already a couple of scenes into the play. Table work means [...]

This past Sunday and Monday we held the Nu Werkz series staged readings of American Triage by Marisela Treviño Orta, the script that is growing out of the Canal Project. The readings went very well, with lively discussion afterwards from the audience. Here is a selection from Marisela’s playwright’s note in the program:
When [...]

The Marin IJ ran a big story yesterday about the Canal Project (the same day as their great review of Lovers & Executioners).
Calling herself a person obsessed by social injustice, Orta was inspired by the raids to write her two-act, four-character play, “American Triage.” Directed by Nick Avila, it will debut Dec. 2 and 3 [...]