5/4/2023 0 Comments Sumaru climax theater“Mojada” strips “Medea” down from 10 characters (including two children and two kings) plus a chorus of Greek women to just Medea and Hason (Camila Moreno and Romar Fernandez, who emote well independently but lack chemistry as a couple), their son Acan (written as a one-dimensional good kid and played brightly and sweetly by 10-year-old Romar Fernandez), Besides “Mojada,” he turned two tragedies by Sophocles into “Oedipus el Rey” and “Electricidad.” “Mojada” is out of an earlier “Medea”-rooted script called “Bruja” in 2012 and has undergone major rewrites over the years. “Mojada” is the conclusion of a trilogy of plays that Alfaro adapted from Greek classics. She confides her fears in the play’s elderly mother figure Tita (a combination of both the nurse character and the Greek chorus in Euripides’ version) and in a friendly, funny neighbor who is named Josefina but is trying to Americanize herself as “Josie.” She sees Acan embracing American customs. ![]() Medea is not just losing her husband but is being encouraged to give up some cherished cultural traditions. Hason is hired and seduced by the couple’s wealthy businesswoman landlord Armida. In Alfaro’s “Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles,” Medea (pronounced with Spanish rather than Greek inflections) and Hason are undocumented immigrants who have fled Mexico with their young son Acan and are trying to get ahead by doing menial work in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles.
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