ART, POLITICS AND PASSION MIX IN NEW PLAY MODOTTI AND WESTON

 

 

WHO: Stage Writer/Claudia Hoag McGarry Presents

 

WHAT: MODOTTI AND WESTON

Written/Directed by Claudia H. McGarry

Shari Howard, Erika Leachman, Peter Rojas,

Philip Moreno, Ken Weiler, Isaiah Canada, Rene Correa, 

and Isabelle Marchand.

 

WHEN: Saturday, May 5th, a Cinco de Mayo show featuring a story that takes place in Mexico City: two shows: 4:30 pm and 7 pm

 

WHERE: THE ALHECAMA THEATER 

914 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93101

(behind Playa Azul Restaurant)

 

TICKETS:   $10 General; $5 Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation 

Members.  Cash at the Door or online at: https://nightout.com/events/modotti-and-weston/tickets 

 

ABOUT:  More than a century ago Tina Modotti’s life crystalized a brief and powerful moment in time. She was a beauty, a muse, an artist, a rebel, but more than all that, a humanitarian. Set in Los Angeles and Mexico, the play delves into the affair she had with famous photographer, Edward Weston, how they found themselves in Mexico with artists and activists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, larger than life figures who greatly influenced the course of her life. Last, Tina was framed for an assasination which became the tragedy that forced her exit from a country she had grown to love.