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PALO ALTO COLLEGE TO STAGE LORCA

SAN ANTONIO - To cap off Hispanic Heritage Month, Palo Alto College brings back the popular one-man performance of LORCA by local playwright, actor and vocalist, José Rubén De León. Two performances are scheduled‹in English on Thursday, Oct. 13 at 11:25 a.m and en Español on Friday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Admission is free and open to the public.

Currently, De León is winding down from a very successful run of Simplemente Lara, a concert of songs by Mexican composer Agustín Lara at Jump-Star Perfomance Co.
As writer and producer of LORCA, De León, covers major aspects of the life and works of Spain¹s best-known poet and one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca. The Spanish Civil War serves as a political background for LORCA and introduces audiences to the artist¹s prose, poetry, theatre, and songs, as well as the people who played significant roles at different stages of his life.

LORCA, set on the day of his arrest, also explores the multifaceted personality of the writer who was assassinated in 1936 by anti-Republican rebels, and whose books were destroyed and works banned for almost twenty years in Franco¹s Spain.
For information contact Luis Mercado at 210.921.5077.

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