Amalia Ortiz’s latest play is steeped in magical realism and rave culture. Credit: Hector Hugo Garza
In a peculiar twist on the trope of magical realism popularized by visionaries such as Gabriel García Márquez, award-winning poet, performer and playwright Amalia Ortiz this week and the next will bring us her latest opus, presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center.
The play The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia offers a quixotic tale of 1990s U.S. rave culture. The production follows a mute, queer undocumented immigrant’s disappearance and subsequent transformation from homeless outcast into a shamanic DJ who leads clandestine underground rituals.
The story depicts a journey from disavowed to revered among people who share the same culture and social stigmas, both illusory and practical.
$15, Thursday-Saturday, March 19-21, and Thursday-Saturday, March 26-28, SAY Sí Black Box Studio, 1310 S. Brazos St., (210) 271-3151 ext. 250, guadalupeculturalarts.org.
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