Free Performance: Magic Theatre’s The Gangster Of Love | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join Magic Theatre as it presents a free production of Jessica Hagedorn’s The Gangster Of Love at Laney College.

Directed by Loretta Greco, The Gangster Of Love is a Magic Gerbode commissioned new play, that presents the theatrical adaptation of Jessica Hagedorn’s own story of immigration from Manila. Raquel “Rocky” Rivera and her eccentric family settle in the Haight during the 1970s, opening a window to a dynamic period of conflict, social change, and artistic flourishing in San Francisco.

The lauded city of poets, rebels, and thriving musicians will be reclaimed at Magic through the eyes of Hagedorn’s immigrant artists. Featuring live music, and poetry reading, as key narrative forms, this is a story 20 years in the making.

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