DESTINOS 2025 – 8th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival

(UN)DOCUMENTS [El Paso, TX] by Jesús I. Valles is a Co-Presentation between the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) and the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA).
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A Midwest Premiere.

Drama

Written and Performed by Jesús I. Valles.

Directed by Rudy Ramirez.

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Synopsis:

With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you can learn to transform.

In their first full-length solo show, (Un)Documents, award-winning actor and poet Jesús I. Valles journeys across both sides of a river with two names, moving between languages to find their place as a child, a lover, a teacher, and a sibling in a nation that demands sacrifice at the altar of citizenship. In doing so, they create a new kind of documentation written with anger, fierce love, and the knowledge that what makes us human can never be captured on a government questionnaire.

60 min.

15+

Performed in English.