Word: ansara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowry Hemphill '72, Jonathan M.Harris '69-'71, Jean Alonzo '59, Charles Bernstein '72, Daniel Gilbarg '68, David Schuldberg '72-'73, Jonathan Walters '71, Judith E. Smith '70, Frances A. Maher '64, Holly Cheever '71, Ellen Gesmer '71-'72, Bernie Blustein '72-'73, Paul R.Harrison '72, Michael D.Cohen '70, Michael Ansara '68, J. Kenyon Chapman '69, Robert Kessler '71, Rebecca Klatek, Jane Stein '71, Nathan L. Goldshlag '71, Mark R. Dyer '70-'72, Joshua Freeman '70, Katha Pollitt '71, James H.Barton '58, Katherine K. Christoffel '69, Naomi A. Schapiro '71, Tom Christoffel (HLS '70), Ken Barnes '70, Judy Lieberman '69, Susan...
...both efforts, Amy Ansara attempts to confront the effects of EI Salvador's bloody civil war--loaded material, and it backfires on her twice...
written by Amy Ansara, directed by June Judson...
Zona Rosa, the title of the second and featured play, refers to San Salvador's "Pink Zone," an enclave of cafes and boutiques. Ansara dramatizes the chance meeting of three schoolmates at one of these cafes. Bobby, Yolanda, and Rey are the only surviving members of the Class of '79 at a city prep school. Not a bad premise, but so many secrets and contradictions are breathlessly revealed that the audience can only turn numb...
Among these "shocking" revelations are the fact that Rey (Jay Chiumento) helped his classmates cheat on one of their final exams but was the only one to be expelled for the act. Ansara uses this tidbit as an excuse for a flashback to the fresh revolutionary fervor of 1979. As Bobby (David Frisch) and Rey copy over old tests, Rey equates the stealing of a Latin exam to a revolutionary act: "Say no to the academy, no to the authorities!!" Better yet, say no to the acting...