Live theater comes to the northeast Valley as ARTS/ San Fernando and Los Angeles Mission College Theater present the new comedy “Crossing the Line: A Latino Kyogen,” at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays, May 6,7,8 and May 13,14,15 at the Paseo San Fernando, 1038 San Fernando Rd., San Fernando.
“Crossing the Line: A Latino Kyogen” was written and directed by Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez, Los Angeles Mission College’s new full-time Theater/Cinema instructor, who created the fantastical and hugely popular site-specific extravaganza “Voices of Pioneer Cemetery: Flashlight Ghost Tour” last October.
ARTS/San Fernando is the vision of five diversely creative and accomplished local area professionals who want to highlight the amazing and varied amount of artistic talent in the City of San Fernando and its neighboring communities. The mission of ARTS/San Fernando is to foster and promote the visual and performing arts in the City of San Fernando. Through a host of dynamic and collaborative events, ARTS/San Fernando envisions encouraging community interest and participation in the arts and arts education. “Crossing the Line” is the premiere event presented by ARTS/San Fernando.
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“Crossing the Line” is a satirical farce based on a classical Japanese form of theater known as Kyogen. Since Kyogen plays often contain lively and sometimes bawdy satire about everyday situations and common people, it makes ideal source material for a comic exploration of our present day people’s pre-conceived notions and stereotypes.
"Crossing the Line is an original adaptation that highlights the fact that we humans have more in common than they sometimes like to admit,” says Avilés-Rodríguez. “With this production, we hope to shine a spotlight on our amazing local talent and emerging theater scene in the northeast San Fernando Valley."
