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WP Cover WATER & POWER
WINNER 2007 BEST NEW PLAY
L.A. Drama Critics Circle & Ovation Awards 

By Richard Montoya for Culture Clash
Directed by Sam Woodhouse
October 21 - November 16, 2008 
 
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Ensemble leader Richard Montoya has written a truly humorous, tough-minded and penetrating look at Southern California's power politics, and the Latinos and Gringos who hold our future in their hands. Ranging from the hilarious to the chilling, this is a gripping piece of Southern California noir fiction in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley and the film "Chinatown." At the center of the intrigue lives the power of brotherly love as two brothers, flush with the temptations of new and immense influence, attempt to save themselves from the abyss of realpolitik.
 
 
"Fans of Culture Clash's Chicano-inflected, spoken-word-erupting performance art needn't worry that they've lost sight of their signature gifts. Their latest piece, a tale of brothers and a morass of local corruption, daringly tries to bundle these elements into a tragedy... a significant step in an ambitious new direction."
- L.A. TIMES 


The Story
A hardworking Chicano father nicknamed his twin sons Water and Power, underscoring the family motto: "There is no power without water, and no water without power." Water has become a rising star State Senator with his eye on Washington; Power is an honored Police Lieutenant who breaks all the rules.
 
It has been raining for 17 days and nights. The brothers are trapped inside Motel Paradise on Sunset Boulevard. On the eve of an election that could propel Water's political career into the fast lane, Power has ignited a life-or-death scandal that threatens to derail the lives and dreams of each of them. The brothers, and the city, are in trouble.
 
This is theatre of the moment: Montoya's careening, buoyant imagination bursts forth in an explosive story that is political, social, satirical, ethnic, fearless, often moving and always dramatic. Water & Power won the Los Angeles Theatre Critic's Circle and Ovation Awards for Best New Play when it premiered in 2006. REP audiences will be the first to see this award-winning work prior to its feature film debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. 
 
This a  must see play by none other than "Cultural Clash."  
-David Valladolid
 
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