The Crying Woman/La Llorona, is a cross-cultural drama about a young American businessman from Houston who is assigned by his company to open an American
fast food restaurant, for Mexican food, in Mexico City.
He and his pregnant wife, a college professor, relocate to Mexico City and move into the home of a struggling architect, a Mexican national of Spanish descent, forced to rent his family's centuries-old hacienda to make ends meet to support his own young family. The hacienda is visited by La Llorona, a spirit who sings her song of sadness in hopes of rescuing the two couples from danger.
The Crying Woman/La Llorona is a two-act play (three women; three men) with music. The story of the play interweaves, metaphorically, the legend of La Llorona
(The Crying Woman), with the lives of the two couples as they struggle to establish a common ground of cultural understanding during a time of economic uncertainty and personal crisis in their respective lives.
The character of La Llorona (a 16th-century Aztec woman), inhabits the stage as a spirit; in her song, she laments the deaths of her two sons, born of her union with the Spanish conquistador, Cortes, while singing her tale of tragedy and warnings of danger to the two couples.
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