You are about to hear the third play in the Reunion Revolucion Radio festival: a farm for meme by Virginia Grise. It is a monologue told in two voices.
A butterfly sits in a walnut tree on a 14-acre farm in the middle of South Central Los Angeles; a mother and her three boys live in a tent in an encampment trying to save the farm from police and bulldozers; an artist norteada plants tomato plants in potholes hoping they will break open the concrete. a farm for meme is a story about semilleros and the South Central Farm, built in a vacant lot after the 1992 LA rebellion.a farm for meme by Virginia Grise, directed by Rebecca Rivas
Cast:
Angela Muniz
Natalia Valadez
Stage Manager:
Cassandra Soto
Sound Design:
Ian Gilliam
Music:
“El Jardin de Meme”
lyrics and music by Sandino Gonzalez-Flores
Piano and Leona by Sandino Gonzalez-Flores
Jarana by Quetzal Flores
Originally Broadcast on September 19, 2020