Legendary local playwright Luis Valdez is bringing back “Valley of the Heart” five years after its premiere at El Teatro Campesino.
Valdez’s play will return for a run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles from Oct. 30-Dec. 9. The Center Theatre Group announced the play written and directed Valdez as part of the 2018-19 season at the 739-seat theatre at the L.A. Music Center.
The production is presented in association with El Teatro Campesino based in San Juan. It comes on the heels of Valdez’s voice role in the Oscar-winning animated film “Coco” in 2017.
According to the Taper Forum description of the play:
“Luis Valdez, the legendary creator of Zoot Suit and hero of the Latino theatre (The New York Times), returns to the Taper with a sweeping new epic examining the difficult divide between America’s ideals and its actions in this quintessentially California play, written by a master of the genre.”
The theater site goes on:
“The Yamaguchis and the Montaños are two immigrant families struggling to provide a future for their American-born children after the Great Depression on the farmland they share. But as their oldest children fall in love—secretly—the attack on Pearl Harbor throws these Mexican and Japanese American families into uncertainty and turmoil. When the Yamaguchis are interned along with thousands of other Japanese Americans, allegiances are tested, heroes are made, and the two young lovers must find a way to stay loyal to each other—and their country.
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Luis Valdez revives ‘Valley of the Heart’
