Moraga, Cherríe | Ed Morales (essay date November 1992)
Ed Morales (essay date November 1992)
SOURCE: Morales, Ed. “Shadowing Valdez: An Outspoken New Generation of Hispanic Artists is Widening the Trail Luis Valdez Blazed through Southern California.” American Theatre 9, no. 7 (November 1992): 14-19.
[In the following essay, Morales analyzes California's Hispanic theatre in the early 1990s, including Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and Saints, relating Jorge Huerta’s assertion that “Moraga seems to be the one star [among Hispanic playwrights] on the horizon of any significance.”]
Driving into San Juan Bautista, an old Spanish mission town about two hours south of San Francisco, is a little like going backwards in time. Having rushed past the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (or SLAC, as it's known to particle physicists) and the bustling Silicon Valley megalopolis San Jose, the road begins to narrow and you slip into a valley, past an historic mission church and into the gravel...
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