This brilliant new work reverberates with the gorgeous sounds of Latin love
songs, or boleros, written by master composer Fabian Obispo. Acclaimed
actors Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager, Big Love) and Rachel Ticotin
(Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Total Recall, and Broadway's Macbeth)
star alongside the fresh new talents of Drew Cortese, Lela Loren, Dion
Mucciacito, and Michele Vazquez in their A.C.T. debut.
Playbill.com: "According to A.C.T., Rivera found his inspiration for his
award-winning new play close to home — in the marriage of his parents. He
said, "The idea of Boleros is to examine a long-term relationship and how the
love you feel for somebody is severely tested when life throws obstacles and
tragedies in your way.
"I literally thought about this play for 10 years, wondered about it, and
daydreamed about it — but I didn't write a word until two years ago. Almost all
of my work is inspired by something deeply personal, coupled with the larger
social and political forces around me. Writing about Puerto Rico was liberating
because I was born in Puerto Rico but I left the island when I was four years
old."
The aged couple in the second act of the play is played by veterans of film,
television, and theatre Robert Beltran and Rachel Ticotin. Acclaimed television
and theatre actor Beltran ("Big Love," "Star Trek: Voyager," East L.A. Classic
Theater Group) takes on the double roles of the older Eusebio in the second
act and Flora's father, Don Fermin, in the first. Ticotin (Broadway's Macbeth)
plays Older Flora in the second act and Flora's mother, Dona Milla, in the first.
The young couple in the 1950s is played by newcomers Drew Cortese and
Lela Loren making their Bay Area debut. The cast also includes Dion
Mucciacito and Michele Vazquez, playing a series of family members and
friends of the couple over their 40-year relationship."
