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A brief history of farmworker's theater, told by Luis Valdez. Read the full description.
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Luis Valdez, playwright and filmmaker famous for La Bamba and Zoot Suit, recounts his days with Cesar Chavez in mobilizing immigrant farmworkers into a union with the help of theater. Valdez and his Teatro Campesino traveled the countryside and created theater for laborers – often illiterate – in impromptu setting on pickup trucks on the side of fields in California.
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