A MEXICAN TRILOGY (2011-2013)
The Los Angeles Theatre Center
Faith, Hope and Charity comprise Evelina Fernández's series, A Mexican Trilogy. The plays center around the Garcias's, a Mexican-American family. The trilogy deals in part with the impact that inspirational historical figures have upon the lives of the Garcias family. Those figures specifically are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Pope John Paul II.
FAITH PART I is the first play in the trilogy. Set a couple decades after the Mexican Revolution, Faith is the story of a family faced with the challenge of retaining ancient traditions and cultural memory in the midst of social and political upheaval.
HOPE PART II takes place in the 1960's when a new young president, a national crisis and the loss of innocence follows the Garcia family and the nation.
CHARITY PART III is the third and final installment, the world mourns the death of Pope John Paul II, the centenarian matriarch of the family is visited by the ghost of her great grandson slain in Iraq, as a newly arrived relative from Mexico suddenly appears.