Word for Word is pleased to be back on KALW’s OPEN AIR
program with another great story reading:
RETABLOS
Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
by Octavio Solis
Thursday, September 24th at 1pm
Featuring the following stories:
Retablos, El Judío, and La Migra
Directed by Sheila Balter and Jim Cave
with
Maria Candelaria*
Edie Flores
Carla Gallardo
Gendell Hernández*
Gabriel Montoya
Brady Morales-Woolery*
Carolina Morones
Ryan Tasker*
Original Music by David R. Molina
Author Octavio Solis will appear and perform the story "Retablos"
Thank you to City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Permission Granted by Author.
Retablos is a coming of age memoir; each chapter a memory tale, verging on fable, which paints a dreamlike picture of life in El Paso in the 60’s and ’70’s. Drawing from his own childhood, Solis says that he wrote these stories "to see how that skinny brown kid riding his bike out there in the desert made sense of his complicated, deeply beautiful and troubled world." Octaviosolis.net
“A retablo is a devotional painting, playwright Octavio Solis tells us. In this poignantly written, heart-warming coming-of-age memoir, Solis pays tribute to those cornerstone moments in his life, negotiating borders at once personal and cultural, with such color that the reader is left spellbound. Astonishing, what more can I say?”
—Greg Sarris, author of How a Mountain Was Made and longtime Word for Word friend
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From the Original Full production of Retablos, at Z Space February 2020
L-R, seated on floor: Gendell Hernández, Carla Gallardo
L-R , on bench: Gabriel Montoya, Regina Morones, Maria Candelaria
L-R, standing: Edie Flores, Carolina Morones, Brady Morales-Woolery, Ryan Tasker
Photo credit: Lorenzo Fernandez-Kopec
We know that nothing can compare to the experience of seeing live theater! As the COVID pandemic has made this impossible for the time being, Word for Word is exploring ways to bring content to you. In addition to this radio appearance, we are pleased to announce the WORD for WORDcast, our new podcast. We’ll hopefully be bringing you some old favorites as well as some new surprises. The first installment debuts September 17th, with E.M. Forster’s, “The Machine Stops.”
