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3/21/05

SPRING THEATRE PRODUCTION, TWO WORKSHOPS PLANNED AT
ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY

CANTON- The Fat Free Chicana and the Snow Camp Queen, a play by Elaine Romero, will be produced at St. Lawrence University on March 30 through April 2, 2005, at 8 p.m. each evening, in Gulick Theatre.

Admission is free but tickets are required and may be picked up at the box office in the Gulick lobby 1-5 p.m. March 28-April 1st or after 7:30 p.m. on performance nights.

Romero’s play is the story is of a young Chicana, Amy Duran, who is trying to juggle two conflicting sets of influences and expectations: the pull of her Mexican heritage and her own desire to assimilate into the culture of the United States. Her struggle with the challenges and necessary compromises of negotiating this “borderland” existence are brought to vivid life through Romero’s delightful comedy. The play also includes strong elements of magic realism in the person of a rather eccentric and dual-natured godmother who keeps creating new complications for Amy.

The playwright’s works have been produced and presented at such theatres as Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Women's Project and Productions, INTAR, Kitchen Dog Theatre, the Working Theatre, and the New Theatre. She has been published by Vintage Books, Samuel French, and Smith & Kraus (Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2000).

Romero will visit campus in conjunction with the production of her play, participating in the free, public following events:
Negotiating the Borderlands – On Stage and Elsewhere
Noble Center 109
Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 4:30 p.m.
Elaine Romero, student actors, student assistants to the director, director Rebecca Daniels (speech and theatre) and borderlands scholar Martha Chew Sanchez (global studies) present a fireside chat as they explore the issues of identity and culture as they manifest in the play and in their own lives and work.

Finding the Stories Within: A Playwriting Workshop
In the Modular Classroom behind Griffiths Arts Center
Saturday, April 2, 2005 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (lunch included)
No cost to participants, but advance reservations are required
Please call Rebecca Daniels at 229-5183 for information and to reserve your place
Open to playwrights and non-playwrights alike. Romero will conduct an intensive playwriting workshop emphasizing exercises that will help students gain access to the stories already within them. Students should come with plenty of paper and pens/pencils and be prepared to read their work aloud. All participants will leave having written a short play. Please wear comfortable clothes.

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