Review: Breaking the Silence of the South Texas Border: Teatro Chicano de Laredo

by Michael Meigs
Published on April 05, 2014

"We're from the badlands," producing artistic director Carlos Nicolás Flores told us after company members had presented a fifteen-minute scene from Isaura and the Virgin.  "I mean it."  With a grim-faced apology he then put an image up on the screen.  Taken from a distance -- across the border in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico -- it showed two lifeless bodies hanging from lamp posts, hands tied behind them.  In contrast, he said, "Austin is the Paris of …

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