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REAL WOMEN }IAVE CURVES by El lDluywright's Notes REAL WOMEN HAVE CIJRVES was first presented Center in San Teatro De I-a Esperanza at the Mission Cultural...

REAL WOMEN }IAVE CURVES by El lDluywright's Notes REAL WOMEN HAVE CIJRVES was first presented Center in San Teatro De I-a Esperanza at the Mission Cultural was di- When I was very young my best friend and I were walking Francisco, Califomia, May 25, 1990' The production Iloyd; light de- to the comer store. My parents had wamed me not to tell rected by Hector Correa; set design by Kate -pluin. *papers" and to bc careful walking the by Arrasursia Pow- &nyone I didn't have sign by Iluckholtz; costume desiglr *la migra" streets. On the way to the store we saw CI,Is/im- ers, The cast was as follows: migratiory'Border Patrol). I quickly tumed to my friend and Francine Torres tried to 'act white." I spoko in English and talked about ANA. Jennifer Proctor Jordache jearu and Barbie dolls hoping no one would suspect ESTELA Marta Del Rio us. When I finally got my legal residence card, I'remembered CARMEN 'li:sst Koning-Martinez this incident knowing that I would never have to hide and be PANCIIA Miraida lUos afraid again. I also laughed al my naivete and fear because ROSALI what I had thought was la migra was only the L.A. Police Mcter Maid. In 1987 the Simpson-Rodino Amnesty Law, designed to stop the influx of undocumented people entering the country, granted thousands of undocumented people living in the U.S. Acknowledgmcnts :;irrcc 1982 legal residency. This was an oppornrnity of a life- lirru'. tlowcver, thousands, not tnrsting the govemment, hesi- Special thanksto: God, Catalina and Rosendo L6pez' t,rlcrl lo rrlrply, fearing this was a scheme to deport them. feizute Fukuda, Bill Virchis, Lupe Ontiveros' kene Fomes' 'llrt:y, Iikr: rnc, couldn't believe that after hiding and being Emilio Carballido, Susana Tubert, Toni Curiel, Jorge l{uerta, Sara Valtlovitrtls' Artgelica lrcruccutcd for so long they were finally going to have the Jon Mercedes III, Luis Valdez, lir:crlorn to live and work in this country. lloman' L6pez, Esther L6pcz, 'fercsa Mtrroro' Carmen I got rny residcnce carrl soon aftcr I graduated from high of nfien, LATC, I'll 'l'catro l)c I;r li'spc'raltz'a' Un'iversity 'l'he Guadalupe Cultural school alxl wns thcn ablc to apply to college. I had been ac- Califomia San Dicgo 'I'hcatcr Dcpt', cclrtc