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...story unfolds piecemeal, with many details emerging in the blackouts between scenes. The characters are always privy to information that the audience does not know. Fornes occasionally fills in parts of the story, but spectators are more often left to extrapolate for themselves. Soon the audience meets his wife, Leticia, a hypersensitive hysterical woman who also drives for self-improvement. Her goal is to educate herself, seeing it as a way to either escape her loveless marriage or to make Orlando love her again...
...Orlando rises through the military ranks by joining the torture unit, he becomes increasingly cruel to both Leticia (Lisa Faiman ’03) and Alejo (Jeffrey A. Barnet ’06), his friend and coworker. While Leticia distracts herself with her education, Orlando kidnaps an orphaned girl, Nena, and keeps her in the basement where he repeatedly abuses her, eventually claiming that he does it out of love...
Violence characterizes every relationship in the play. Such violence works comically in the relationship between Leticia and her maid Olivia (Sarah E. Porter ’03), but cruelty inevitably pushes them to a terrifying end. Even the innocent and perpetually optimistic Nena accepts the unavoidable violence that plagues the world of Fornes’ characters...
...Jesus Quiej-Alvarez, who were joined at the skull and faced different directions, are progressing well after a 50-member team at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA worked around the clock to separate the shared skull and untangle the blood vessels that connected them. Born to Alba Leticia Alvarez, 23, and Wenceslao Quiej Lopez, 21, a banana packer, the girls, whose development prior to the surgery was normal, have been given a good chance of survival...
...there's a small problem. They don't want you.' Then the fight began." Berry met with director Marc Forster, and, she says, "I just wore him down. I shared with him some moments in my life. Some were personal moments of heartbreak, hard knocks. I can relate to Leticia in ways that you wouldn't think I can if you're just looking at me." So Forster took the risk. "I felt I wanted to give her the opportunity, and I feel I made the right decision," he says. And Berry made good on it. Her Leticia is willful...