Chile Con Carne: Chile

Chile Con Carne Dept: Chile Con Carne, Carmen Aguirre witty, semi-autobiographical monologue about growing up as a refugee of Chile Pinochet regime, vividly captures the feelings of a child torn between two worlds. Manuelita desperately wants to fit in with her white, middle-class Canadian peers to the extent that she wears a blond wig to school. But she also keenly aware that she an outsider, with parents who speak only Spanish, regard Canada as just a temporary haven and devote all their energies to opposing the military dictatorship that sent them into exile, according to Globe and Mail. But when we first meet Manuelita played by a sparky Paloma Nunez she just a poor immigrant kid with her nose pressed against the candy-shop window of Western materialism. At school, she agog with awe and envy at one of her classmates in particular, a honey-hued princess named Leslie Manuelita hears it as Lassie who lives in a palatial Vancouver home and has an awesome Barbie collection. Manuelita, whose father works in a factory while her mother cleans houses, would give anything to have just one of those dolls. Leslie befriends her, but thinks she Mexican like the family maid, while the other kids refer to her sneeringly as Speedy Gonzales and call her homeland Chile con carne and Video: Chile orders arrests over 1973 murder of Victor Jara This early Aguirre play, getting a welcome revival from Toronto Latin American-themed Alameda company at the Factory Studio Theatre, has only gained in interest since it premiered here in 1999. Since then, the Vancouver playwright has published her bestselling 2011 memoir, Something Fierce , which chronicled her youth as part of the anti-Pinochet resistance movement. In retrospect, Chile Con Carne is a rehearsal for that book, a first glimpse into the beginnings of a fiery young revolutionary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.