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4x45: Dr Alma Martinez in Conversation
4x45 is an innovative series of commissioned academic lectures and interviews, captured on film, providing a range of perspectives on a topic, theme or practitioner. Each volume, comprising four chapters, is hosted on Digital Theatre+ and published in print by Routledge.
In this interview from Volume Four, ‘The Theater of Luis Valdez’ (2020), Michael Chemers talks to actor, movie star and scholar Dr Alma Martinez about her creative collaborations with Valdez. They discuss the emergence of a ‘Chicano Consciousness’, Valdez’s El Teatro Campesino, being cast in Zoot Suit and the challenges of working in Hollywood.
*Contains references to sexual violence.
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