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Dec 4, 2018 · The St. Lawrence Do it Yourself Theatre class performed Lisa Loomer’s Bocón Saturday and Sunday in the Black Box Theatre. The production featured an orphaned 12-year-old boy’s journey from a war-torn Central American country to the City of Angels, Los Angeles. The main character endures his journey while he literally loses and reclaims his ...
By Lisa Loomer . Directed by David Furumoto. Bocon is a fantastic bilingual fable for the whole family. This one-act play explores freedom of speech and expression creatively using rhythms, song, and movement. The central character is Miguel, a loud mouth young boy (bocon) who is "frightened out of his voice" by the soldiers who are occupying ...
Abstract. In Lisa Loomer's Bocón (Big Mouth), Miguel—a 12-year-old boy—has to travel north to the United States after witnessing soldiers arrest his parents. My reading of Bocón relies on ...
Nov 6, 2014 · The upcoming play ¡Bocón! by Lisa Loomer preserves the darker elements of the current events source material and then mixes in humor and magical realism to create a fairy tale for our modern age. After witnessing the arrest of his parents, 12-year-old Miguel loses his voice and is given $100 by a neighbor to flee to America where he’ll be ...
Sep 26, 2019 · Los Actores. ¡BOCÓN! by Lisa Loomer. Produced by Los Actores, El Paso’s Spanish Language and Bilingual Theater Company with the support of Eden Enterprises Presented by special arrangement ...
About the Play: Living Out is a full-length comedic drama by Lisa Loomer. Focuses on the interwoven plight of a Salvadoran-immigrant nanny – torn between her own kids and her need to make a living – and her employer, an equally ambivalent, guilt-stricken lawyer mom re-entering the Los Angeles working world.
Awards: Lisa is a two-time winner of the American Theatre Critics Award, and has also received awards from the Kennedy Center, the Pen Center, the Imagen Foundation, (Norman Lear Award), the Jane Chambers Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, among others. Film: credits include GIRL, INTERRUPTED. She also writes for television.
