Description

Harvest Moon is a full-length play about Mariluz, a Chicana muralist dying of cancer who paints a mural for her son, telling the story of the farmworkerse struggle for life. As her son uncovers the past, the mural comes alive. An eancestral agricultural memory,e this story chronicles four generations of a Mexican-American farmworker family, celebrating life and art. Harvest Moon premiered at the Seattle Group Theatre. eGraceful and movingein its fluid crosscutting of characters and time schemes, it creates a vital sense of a family both shaped by and shaping the American experienceeMoon is framed as an ancestral agricultural memory. Images of both the bounty and harshness of the harvest fill the playeGonzelez works in some witty and theatrical touchese (San Francisco Chronicle). Area staging. Approximate running time: 80 minutes