Father's Shadow or Sombra del Padre

Yet it is not just a journey of sadness but also one of joy, insight and ultimately revelation

The play takes place over a course of five years in a cluster of homes that forms a community of south Texas

Like the border between Texas and Mexico in reality, the borders between these two places in the play are both incredibly rigid and strangely flexible

Likewise, the border between "reality" and "dream" in Father's Shadow/Sombra del Padre is sometimes impenetrable, leaving the characters unable to escape, and sometimes almost immaterial, allowing the characters to confront those whith whom they feel they have lost touch emotionally or spiritually

Cast can be doubled