Through smiles and laughs, a group of women can be seen practicing theater techniques at a local Santa Rosa, California park. All of them immigrants, all of them hard workers. This is a theatre troupe made up of farmworker and domestic workers women in Sonoma County.
All of them have similar backgrounds but come from different walks of life. For most, acting is a form of expression where they can become liberated. They can open up, release tension, trauma, and turn their difficult past into art. Many left lives behind when they immigrated to the U.S., and their present is about embracing what is in front of them. And Teatro Almas Libres is giving them the space to just be.
When Remezcla spoke with them they were preparing for their next play La Madre Patria (Motherland). The group was led by Jackie Katz, their theater teacher…