Circle in the Dirt


Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto is a 1995 play by Cherríe Moraga. It is set in East Palo Alto, California, a community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Circle in the Dirt and the 1996 play Watsonville were published together in a single book by the West End Press.
The story takes place on the day of a scheduled demolition of two buildings in East Palo Alto. As a result, it is the dissolution of a racially diverse community. In the play the characters discuss national events in the past and question the future.
The play, along with Watsonville, uses dialog that is a mixture of English and Spanish to paraphrase the content of the interviews conducted by Moraga; most of the actual interviews were done entirely in Spanish.

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