SPEEC Play Reading Series: "Zoot Suit" from El Teatro Campesino (Luis Valdez)

Join us for the ninth play reading of Theatre Makers' SPEEC Play Reading Series of plays with social, political, economic, and environmental change (SPEEC) themes.

We'll read online this time due to the pandemic:

• "Zoot Suit" is based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the anti-Mexican Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in 1943.

Luis Miguel Valdez is regarded as the founder of Chicano theater in the United States. El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers and the Chicano Movement with the "full support of César Chávez." Originally based in Delano, California, during the Delano Strike, the theatre is currently based in San Juan Bautista, California.

We will read these plays in hopes of Latine liberation worldwide!

Warning: these plays include portrayals of racism, fashion, resistance, and rioting.

Please RSVP and answer the question with your email address so that we can send you PDF files of the script.

Please arrive on time and be prepared to read the play, which will take about 2.5 hours.

Everyone is welcome to read a part. If you'd prefer a particular role, please let us know in response to the RSVP question.