Monday, August 7, 2017: Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga’s play THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE takes off from the story of La Malinche, a Native woman who in myth became the collaborator of the colonizers of Mexico.

Playwright and poet Cherrie Moraga, co-editor of the class feminist of color book, This Bridge Called My Back, discusses her new play, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, with Lisa Dettmer.  In a time-traveling re-encounter with a 16th century female slave-turned-slaveholder, a Mexican woman in the early stages of Alzheimers is forced to concede a radically revised ledger on her life; its loves and losses, in this play which opens at San Francisco's Brava Theater on August 10.  The Stanford Daily says the play has "the power to render its audience speechless – to wrench us from our academic stupor, remind us of the importance of good art, and make us feel a little more awake because of it."

The Mathematics of Love

Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:00 PM PT  
Sunday, August 27, 2017 3:00 PM PT
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA, 94110

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Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Diana Paul and Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

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