La Víctima: An old message still needing to be heard

“Rupert Reyes and Jorge Huerta met in 1974, when Reyes was a theatre major at UT-Austin and Huerta, who was just starting his academic career, was giving a talk on Chicano and U.S. Latino theatre and El Teatro de la Esperanza, a theatre group he helped found at UC-Santa Barbara. Today, Huerta is the foremost authority on Chicano theatre, and Teatro Esperanza is one of the principal companies that helped define Chicano theatre and an entire generation of theatre professionals. Reyes is one of them. His Teatro Vivo presents La Ví­ctima, a groundbreaking production created by Teatro Esperanza that looks at Mexican-U.S. immigration from a historical yet intimate perspective of a mother and son. Huerta comes to Austin this weekend for PlaticArte, a one-day community symposium on immigration issues organized in conjunction with the production. The two came together by phone to discuss the play, the role of art in society, and how the present resembles the past”

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