The staging of “Sentado en un Árbol Caído” at the Goethe-Institut was part of “Disrupting the Mainstream,” a retrospective series of 35 years of the Sinergia Grupo de Teatro and three decades of the Frida Kahlo theater–two institutions with which Teatro Akabal has worked with through the years. They all stage works in Spanish and tackle topics affecting immigrants. The Sept. 2 show was preceded by a Maya invocation and followed by a panel of Guatemalan activists and genocide and torture survivors, including Florildama Boj Lopez, an assistant professor at UCLA’s César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies who also holds a master’s degree in Chicana/o Studies from California State University, Northridge.
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