Teatro Bravo brings back its most successful production, The Women of Juarez, a play written by Ruben Amavizca and produced in Los Angeles, where it has run for the past four years in the Frida Kahlo Theater. Teatro Bravo originally produced the play in Spanish in 2005, and it won the AriZoni awards for Best Actress (Margarita Villa) and Best Director (Christina Marin.)

This production will be performed in English with a new cast, and this time Pam Sterling, a professor of theatre at Arizona State University, will be at the helm as director.

This powerful docudrama tells the story of a mother searching for her missing daughter in the border city of Juarez where hundreds of women have disappeared or been found murdered in the past decade. This story is didactic and unapologetically political as it indicts authorities in the city of Juarez who may well be linked to the murders. But it’s also suspenseful drama that uses a composite character, an average mother, who symbolizes the pain and tragedy of an entire population.

• English translation by Eve Muller and Liane Schirmer

Previews August 31, 2007 at 8pm
Opening Night: September 1, 2007 8pm
Continues: September 7, 8, at 8pm
Matinee September 9 at 2pm

John Paul Theatre
Phoenix College 1202
W. Thomas Road
(corner of 15 Avenue and W. Thomas)

$15 GENERAL ADMISSION
$12 STUDENTS/SENIORS
$11 groups of 8 or more
(pay-what-you-can preview on August 31, 2007, 8pm)

For Reservations and more Information:
Phone: 602-258-1800
Email: teatrobravophx@aol.com