Back tonight from seeing Joe Peer's strong, revelatory one-man show, "Pocho in the House," performed in Petaluma, at the Arts Center, launching this year's Dia de los Muertos celebration. It has legs. It's an intimate, finely crafted tale about Joe Peer's life growing up in San Diego in the 50s as the son of hard working Mexican immigrants. It has music, dancing, costumes, audience interaction, and Joe - as the wee child being tortured by nuns, as the 13-year-old being told a harsh truth, as a teen invited to become a gang member, as the man who will become an actor, first seduced into the craft's potential after seeing Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront."
More to come.
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