![]() ![]() The playwright weaves in a real estate developer named Doña Kati, a stand-in for the Mexican folklore figure La Catrina, the skeleton woman who represents death. The women experience a growing sense of unease as job losses and then evictions move closer, and they worry about what choices they will have when they are pushed out of their community. ![]() The plot focuses on an immigrant mother and her daughter, who is a US citizen. “There are elements that are a little too familiar,” he says of the drama, which will be told in both Spanish and English, with the characters switching languages depending on where they are in the play (often English is spoken at work, Spanish at home). Playwright Joel Ulloa sets his play on the West Coast, but Rivera says the story has echoes of South Boston, Jeffries Point in East Boston, and now Chelsea. ![]()
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