This Land

Over 150 years, four families with ancestry in different parts of the world make their home on one particular plot of Southern California land now known as Watts. A host of old curses and blessings, traditions and recipes, loves and betrayals travel down family lines from the 19th to the 21st century, forcing each successive generation to ask in times of hardship, “Should I stay or should I go?” Los Angeles native Evangeline Ordaz crafts a rich and complex web of diverse characters who through triumph and despair discover how deeply they are rooted in the dreams of their ancestors and the land on which they stand. 

The California Plays Project 

This Land is part of Center Theatre Group's California Plays Project, in which Center Theatre Group has commissioned four Los Angeles playwrights to each write a play of California themes. To aid in each play's development, CTG is partnering with four Los Angeles cultural institutions to bring these California stories to different corners of our city and to make a wide range of Los Angeles audiences a part of the creative process. 

Learn more about The Watts Labor Community Action Committee. 

Learn more about Watts Village Theater Company. 

February 28, 2015, at 5 p.m.  

At the Watts Labor Community Action Committee  

10950 S. Central Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90059 

Presented by Center Theatre Group, Watts Village Theater Company, and The Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC)