Written by RICHARD MONTOYA

Directed by SAM WOODHOUSE

Starring HERBERT SIGUENZA

October 21 - November 16, 2008
Previews - Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday at 7pm, Thursday at 8pm, Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 8pm
Press Opening: Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7pm 
   

      

Culture Clash, America’s premier Latino theatre troupe, has been called “The Marx Brothers meet the Rolling Stones.” We call them our favorite ensemble of actor-writers in America. They are sly and incisive theatrical anthropologists, commentators on who we are today, in an America that has never looked the way it does before. Trust us… nobody writes about Californians like they do!  

Ensemble leader Richard Montoya has written a truly humorous, tough-minded and penetrating look at Southern California’s power politics, and the Latinos and Gringos who hold our future in their hands. Ranging from the hilarious to the chilling, this is a gripping piece of Southern California noir fiction in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley and the film “Chinatown.” At the center of the intrigue lives the power of brotherly love as two brothers, flush with the temptations of new and immense influence, attempt to save themselves from the abyss of realpolitik.

The Story

A hardworking Chicano father nicknamed his twin sons Water and Power, underscoring the family motto: “There is no power without water, and no water without power.” Water has become a rising star State Senator with his eye on Washington; Power is an honored Police Lieutenant who breaks all the rules.

It has been raining for 17 days and nights. The brothers are trapped inside Motel Paradise on Sunset Boulevard. On the eve of an election that could propel Water’s political career into the fast lane, Power has ignited a life-or-death scandal that threatens to derail the lives and dreams of each of them. The brothers, and the city, are in trouble.

This is theatre of the moment: Montoya’s careening, buoyant imagination bursts forth in an explosive story that is political, social, satirical, ethnic, fearless, often moving and always dramatic. Water & Power won the Los Angeles Theatre Critic’s Circle and Ovation Awards for Best New Play when it premiered in 2006. REP audiences will be the first to see this award-winning work prior to its feature film debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.

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