web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:40:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Story Behind the Story - Episodes Tagged with “Plays” https://story.fireside.fm/tags/plays Sat, 06 Jul 2019 13:00:00 -0700 Host Clara Sherley-Appel interviews authors about their creative process, from the inspiration behind the books they write to specific choices they make. en-us episodic Stories about stories and how they came to be Clara Sherley-Appel Host Clara Sherley-Appel interviews authors about their creative process, from the inspiration behind the books they write to specific choices they make. no books, book show, author interviews, interviews, stories Clara Sherley-Appel clara@ksqd.org Episode 5: Xago Juarez - REALISAL: STORIES FROM EAST SALINAS https://story.fireside.fm/5 4ad8a7c3-c551-4e7a-9ba8-a1c127dcb628 Sat, 06 Jul 2019 13:00:00 -0700 Clara Sherley-Appel full Clara Sherley-Appel I talk to Luis 'xago' Juarez about his "reAlisal" plays, which tell the story of East Salinas and are based on interviews with actual residents. We also talk about his theatrical education and the social, political, and economic forces shaping the region. 58:45 no Drawing inspiration for documentary theater practitioners like Anna Deveare Smith and Culture Clash, Luis 'xago' Juarez interviewed nearly 40 residents of East Salinas before writing reAlisal: Stories of East Salinas and the two other reAlisal plays that came before it. He wanted to tell the history of the Alisal using the words of the people who lived there, using their voices, and reshape the narrative of the region in the process. In this interview, I talk to xago about the reAlisal plays, his theatrical education, and what it means to residents to hear stories about the region told in their own voices. Photo © Monterey County Weekly Special Guest: Luis 'xago' Juarez. xago juarez, theater, documentary theater, interviews, own voices, local, salinas Drawing inspiration for documentary theater practitioners like Anna Deveare Smith and Culture Clash, Luis 'xago' Juarez interviewed nearly 40 residents of East Salinas before writing reAlisal: Stories of East Salinas and the two other reAlisal plays that came before it. He wanted to tell the history of the Alisal using the words of the people who lived there, using their voices, and reshape the narrative of the region in the process.

In this interview, I talk to xago about the reAlisal plays, his theatrical education, and what it means to residents to hear stories about the region told in their own voices.

Photo © Monterey County Weekly

Special Guest: Luis 'xago' Juarez.

]]> Drawing inspiration for documentary theater practitioners like Anna Deveare Smith and Culture Clash, Luis 'xago' Juarez interviewed nearly 40 residents of East Salinas before writing reAlisal: Stories of East Salinas and the two other reAlisal plays that came before it. He wanted to tell the history of the Alisal using the words of the people who lived there, using their voices, and reshape the narrative of the region in the process.

In this interview, I talk to xago about the reAlisal plays, his theatrical education, and what it means to residents to hear stories about the region told in their own voices.

Photo © Monterey County Weekly

Special Guest: Luis 'xago' Juarez.

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