¡SOLDADERA!

Written by Jami Brandli
Directed by Jim Holmes
Presented on Dec. 8-9, Strub Theatre

LMU students perform a public staged reading of a brand new play by a guest playwright.

Part epic and part grotesque comedy, ¡SOLDADERA! is set in the Mexican Revolution during The Day of Dead Feast. A teenage girl with face blindness finds the camp where her mother fled to become a revolutionary soldadera (female solider). She is taken in by the other soldaderas and unintentionally catches the eye of the lascivious, god-fearing colonel. Upon learning her mother died bravely in battle, the girl decides to become a soldadera. This sets off the unveiling of secrets that threatens to tear the camp apart.