 Design by April Shell
by the Los Angeles Poverty Department
La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row is based on the Mexican legend of La Llorona (the weeping woman), who wanders the earth in search of her lost / abandoned children . The legend becomes the through line for relating the personal journeys of the 14 men and women in the cast. The performance is composed of original movement, text and song. This collective creation, La Llorona, offers deeply felt, multiple perspectives and insights into the causes, as well as the personal struggles, of the most rapidly growing segment of the homeless population: women and children.
Directed by Henriette Brouwers.
Created and performed by:
Andrea Leichtle
I love to sing songs to express my emotions to other people.
Alexander the poet
I have seen love, and it is not black, white or even brown, but crystal clear.
April Shell
Just April expressing.
Chas
Life is ‘surely’ what you make of it, I know pure joy ‘every day’.
Hylen Burt
Favorite quote: If man does not keep pace with his companion it is because he hears a different drummer, let him step to the music he hears however measured or far away.
Ibrahim Saba
What goes up must come down, that’s physics. When we hit bottom, we must bounce back up that’s for sure humanities. Women and children calling 911; it’s a call beyond LAPD’s duty.
The society is bleeding.
Phoenix Rupp
Here at LAPD is how I’m getting my start in acting.
Linda Blaisdale
Another journey toward my son rise.
Marion van Schenk
I enjoy being with my family and friends, sharing and caring about past, and present life’s experiences.
Melina Bielefelt
is honored to be working with such kindred spirits. So much love. Thank you.
Michael Ray Tucker
I’m searching for the one who makes my heart sing...
Rickey Mantley
Although I was originally born in Denver, Colo. I experienced a rebirth of sorts in the unforgiving streets of Down Town LA, reforged by the fire of Skid Row.
Roxanna King
I thank my son Brandon for breaking the cycle as far as the men in my family going to jail.
Sashae Siatui
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. All praise to God and thanks to LAPD.
Henriette Brouwers
If tears could flow and wash Skid Row, the streets would be cleaned with the force of the ocean and the radiance of its people would reach the shores of America.
LAPD thanks SRO Housing, The LA Central City Church of the Nazarene and Scott MacIntosch.
Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council and the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles. |
