05/05/2011: Dramatic Reading of Novel "In Her Mother's Image" by Cecilia Gaerlan

Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 6PM at the Mechanics' Institute
57 Post St., 4th Fl., San Francisco, CA

Berkeley, CA – April 3, 2011 – In celebration of Mother’s Day, Artis Mundi is proud to present a dramatic reading of excerpts from In Her Mother’s Image, a novel by playwright, Cecilia Gaerlan on Thursday, May 5, at 6PM at the Mechanics’ Institute at 57 Post Street (near Montgomery and Market) in San Francisco.

In Her Mother’s Image is the story of a mother and daughter, Consuelo and Chiquita, who are entangled in a web of longing and antipathy set amidst the chaos of World War II in the Philippines and thirty years later in 1971. The war is seen through the eyes of a headstrong eight-year-old child, Chiquita, who bears witness to an act of betrayal committed by her formidable mother, Consuelo. A betrayal that will be revisited thirty years later when Chiquita goes back to the land of her birth to face the source of her lifelong torment – her own mother.

Artis Mundi is a multicultural theatre arts group dedicated to the production of original works. The dramatic reading of In Her Mother’s Image will consist of several actors reading in character from the book. The reading will feature Maria Luisa Peñaranda, Ging Cavestany, Earlene Somera, Melody Sasis-McClosker and Edith Borbon. This performance will be repeated on August 7 during the San Francisco Theatre Festival at Fort Mason and on Oct. 1 and 2 during the Filipino-American International Literary Festival at the San Francisco Public Library.

http://www.ceciliagaerlan.com/news--events.html