Book and Lyrics by Elisa Gonzales
Music and Additional Lyrics by Moises Vázquez
*Semi-Finalist for the 2022 O'Neill National Music Theater Conference*
Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido, is a song from the heart, an inspiring new musical about the many untold stories of the Repatriation, based on heart-wrenching true-life events. In 1931, as the Great Depression darkened America, a new xenophobia swept through the country, aimed at hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and their American-born children. In a story that transcends time and space, we witness the Repatriation through the eyes of three courageous women spanning across several generations of a Mexican family, and the songs of a shape-shifting musician who immortalizes the immigrant experience through corridos.
Reviews and Press
Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido conveys the duality of an immigrant's identity.
2022 UMass Amherst Department of Theater in collaboration with Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble Workshop Production
2022 Latiné Musical Theatre Lab 4xLatiné Showcase Event
2021 Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble Residency and Staged Reading
Developmental history
2022 Workshop production
umass amherst department of theater
All photos courtesy of Ben Barnhart
All photos courtesy of Ben Barnhart
2021 Developmental residency and staged reading
breath of fire Latina theater ensemble
