Augusta University will stage Maricela de la Luz Lights the World from Nov. 6-9 at the Grover C. Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre. Latino actors get a chance to perform in Spanish and showcase their heritage onstage.
Maricela and her sibling are shopping at a San Diego mall during Christmas. Snow begins to fall. Polar bears appear. Penguins waddle through. The kids discover they’ve somehow left San Diego when they meet Moon and Sun gods who guide them back home.
Jose Rivera wrote the play in 1998 as a commission for Seattle Children’s Theatre. It premiered in La Jolla, California. Rivera made history as the first Puerto Rican screenwriter nominated for an Academy Award for The Motorcycle Diaries…