Rio Grande City High School Theatre One-Act Play Cast & Crew Give a Radiant Performance

The RGC Rattler Theatre One-Act Play Cast & Crew is pictured left to right:
Top Row- Luis Lopez, Mr. Danny Gonzalez (Director). Middle Row- Albert Barrera, David Ramirez,
Jose Nieblas, Jesus Solis, Luis Alanis, Edgar Santos Jr., Steve Garza. Bottom Row- Clarissa Barrera,
Veronica Trevino, Isabel Becerra, Jasmin Zapata, Selena Flores.

A huge congratulations to the RGC Rattler Theatre One-Act Play Cast & Crew for advancing out of Zone and District Competition this year. In their ascension to the title of District Champions, they now advance to Area Competition on April 10th, 2010 at PSJA Memorial High School. We would like to wish the company a great show. BREAK A LEG RATTLERS! In addition, they have earned two advancing play awards and the cast & crew have accumulated many individual awards as well.

• Jasmin Zapata - Outstanding Technical Award (Zone & District)
• Jose Nieblas - All-Star Cast (District)
• Selena Flores - Honorable Mention All-Star Cast (Zone & District)
• Jesus Solis - Honorable Mention All-Star Cast (District), All-Star Cast (Zone)
• Clarissa Barrera - Honorable Mention All-Star Cast (District), All-Star Cast (Zone)
• Luis Alanis - Honorable Mention All-Star Cast (Zone), All-Star Cast (District)
• Luis Lopez - Best Actor (Zone & District)

The One Act Play is entitled Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz portrays the lives of cigar factory workers in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, when a new lector, perhaps the last to ply his trade, is hired. The men and women remain divided in their loyalties as economic hardship and the pressure to abandon old traditions force the owners of the cigar factory to adopt new, progressive manufacturing methods if they wish to stay in business. As the lector reads from Anna Karenina, a novel of adultery set in nineteenth-century Russia, he casts a spell over the workers, transforming their passions and desires through the affirming power of art. That the love they seek may result in a tragic end is ordained as much by the story of the Russian noblewoman as it is by the actions of the workers themselves.