De Novo
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 4, 2010
Closed May 16, 2010
Opened May 4, 2010
Closed May 16, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 10min.
1hr. 10min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Sixteen year-old Edgar Chocoy pleaded with a U.S. court not to deport him to Guatemala. "If I go back, they'll kill me." This true story, crafted from immigration court transcripts, interviews and letters tells the story of the case that challenged the conscience of a nation.
In 2002, at the age of 14, Edgar fled Guatemala to escape the largest gang in Central America. He traveled over 3,000 miles, across the borders of three countries, in search of his mother, who come to the US to find work. Detained by the Department of Homeland Security, he pleaded with a
Colorado judge to grant him asylum and not deport him to Guatemala, where he was certain the gang he escaped would kill him. De Novo chronicles the gripping true story of Edgar and other undocumented youth.
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De Novo, curated, written and directed by Jeffrey Solomon and now at 59E59 Theatres, is one of those theater pieces that comes with projected statistics. It's less a fully realized play than a docudrama or public-service message -- in this case, about underage children who slip across the border as illegal immigrants and are eventually caught, jailed and, after adjudicated hearings, are either given asylum or sent back to their native country. But there's no question that the presentation is an effective example of the genre.
The work specifically focuses on what happened to Edgar Humberto Chocoy Guzman (Jose Aranda), who arrived in the United States from Guatemala when he was 16 a[...]