Teatro Paraguas is pleased to present the premiere production of Santa Fe poet John Macker’s
Black Range Trilogy, a searing portrait of a struggling New Mexico family on the wrong side of the law, directed by Noah G. Simpson and Argos MacCallum.
Black Range Trilogy opens with Esther and Leon, and the return of Leon (Daric Gutierrez) from another stint in jail for robbery. His wife Esther (Lynette Gonzalez) has a long list of house repairs and requests for their growing brood. In spite of a troubling dream in which she confides her doubts to a much older manifestation of herself about Leon’s intentions to reform, she succumbs once again to his bearhugs and charms.
In Coyote Acid, son Luke (Marcos Maez) returns from his own stretch in jail for robbery, following in his dead father’s footsteps. It’s thirty years later, and an older Esther (Esta Gutierrez) may or may not remember where the loot was buried, or even the names of the flowers she has planted for decades.
The Trilogy concludes with Sierra Oscura, and the burial of Esther in the back yard presided over by Father Garcia (Miles Blitch). Luke’s sister Marie (Elsa Lopez) has come up from Las Cruces. The siblings confront each other with the brutal truth of the family’s tortured history, and the possibility of redemption though a bitter sacrifice.