TWITAS Inter-Ethnic Bilingual Children's Theater Workshop, 1976 March 28
Language: English; Spanish
Scope and Content Note

Writer: [various]

Director: Luisa Reyes; Lily Mendoza

Ensemble: Third World Institute of Theatre Arts Studies

The “TWITAS Inter-Ethnic Bilingual Children's Theater Workshop,” a single day event as part of the “World Theatre Day Celebration,” hosted throughout that weekend at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. This workshop was held in the Basement Theatre, and presented by the Third World Institute of Theatre Art Studies (TWITAS) in conjunction with U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) and Communication Center of the Population Institute. It featured two productions, The Legend of the Mango Tree directed by Lily Mendoza and Mi Casa directed by Luisa Reyes.

File: F19_MiCasa1976_VidA
Quantity: Running time: 01:03:24 
Scope and Content Note: The Legend of the Mango Tree (00:00:01-00:25:40); Mi Casa (00:25:41-00:40:24); Home movie footage of a toddler/small child indoors with no audio (00:40:25-01:03:21). Adult appears at 00:48:40 - Identified by Ozzie Rodriguez as Athena "Ben Nomis," wife of Amnon Ben Nomis. O.R. notes that the child in the video is very likely not her child.