 Hi, I'm Cherdie from CalTV Entertainment. Tonight I'm at the Playhouse to get exclusive interviews on the cast of Chavez Ravine. Let's go check it out. More about the general concept of this play, what is it about and what can the audience gain from watching this play? What is so amazing about this show is that it talks about communities of color and it's a story that has not been told off. So I think it'll also bring a lot of audiences that don't normally come to the theater because of the content. I know a lot of the CLSD, which is the Chicano Latino Student Development Office, they are going to come as a group and my community college, Contra Costa College, the Chicano theater class is going to come and watch the play and my family is going to come. It's about Latinos and Latinos are considered minorities but in reality we are no longer the minority in California. I think it's a story that is very purposeful and it's about community and I'm just really happy to be a part of it. I'm glad you mentioned that because that was my upcoming question. How does it feel to represent the Latino community because I know this is personally very exciting for me. They're going to love it and we all have families traveling to come up and see this show and maybe for the first time we have friends in the cast whose families have never come to see them in a show and they're coming to see this show so this is really, it is about community. It keeps coming back to that theme so it's been really beautiful and having Sean San Jose as our director is just, it was necessary, it would have been impossible without him. Yeah, no, I think one of the little exercises that Sean San Jose made us do was to who would we dedicate this to and I think it would be selfish to say it's just dedicated to ourselves as actors to figure out our characters because we're not just embodying real people that live in the community but millions of people that are around right now that are dealing with these issues that are going on so in this play we jump forward through time from the bend backward to go from the 80s to the 40s to the 50s to the 80s so with that comes the confusion at possibly that you might be confused that you're going back in time but with the same issues that are happening again and again and again hopefully that the people in the audience see themselves fully and I think that's what we've all been trying to do and I think it's amazing to just have the opportunity to play someone that's Fernando Valenzuela who looks like me and I know I'll never be a Dodger pitcher but I get to dress up as a historically accurate person and that was all I wanted, I didn't even know I would get lines, so to see myself on screen at least here in photos and stuff it's been an amazing opportunity, thank you. Yeah I think this is the first, this is probably the first play that I've ever spoke Spanish in and heard Spanish being talked in on stage so that's amazing so when my parents come like you'll hear words like and I wrote this in a Facebook post actually like chale simón y orale stuff like you would never think would be on a stage but it's here and I think it's affecting so many communities like on the Berkeley campus as well as all over because our families are traveling from all over like California like no joke I have like 20 people coming tomorrow so I'm like really excited and really nervous because with this comes also like responsibility because it is the first time probably and so yeah I think it's a blessing to have this happen here while I've been here on campus. Again this is Charity from CalTV Entertainment make sure to come and check out Chavez-Raveen starting tomorrow March 4th, thank you. All Berkeley! All Berkeley! The evolution is in the air. Yes. Come here. That was great. Make sure to check out triple nine opening in theaters tomorrow February 26th, thank you.