¡SOLDADERA!

Full-length Epic

4W, 2M

The Mexican Revolution during The Day of Dead Feast. A teenage girl with face blindness finds the camp where her mother fled to become a revolutionary soldadera (female solider).  She is taken in by the other soldaderas and unintentionally catches the eye of the lascivious, god-fearing colonel.  Upon learning her mother died bravely in battle, the girl decides to become a soldadera. This sets off the unveiling of secrets that threatens to tear the camp apart.

READINGS:
May, 2013:  Playwrights Union Reading Series, LA