ROOSTERS (1987)

The Los Angeles Theatre Center

 

Written by Milcha Sanchez-Scott

Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela

 

Cast: Evelina Fernández, Lupe Ontiveros, Pepe Serna, Enrique Castillo, Fausto Bara and Victoria Gallegos

 

Gallo Morales returns home after being imprisoned for seven years for murdering a man over a cockfight. His family welcomes him back with mixed feelings. While his daughter Angela is eager to have him back, his son Hector feels otherwise. Hector desires to leave behind the farm and wants to use the family's prize-winning cock, which he has inherited from his grandfather, to win money in order to move his family away. However, Gallo has returned from prison determined to continue the business and to raise a new flock of roosters. Hector and Gallo soon clash over their differing goals.