Berkeley Rep presents Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok’s play about two undocumented teens seeking a future in the U.S.
Despite its title, “Sanctuary City” isn’t actually about cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agencies. But Martyna Majok’s play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre does center on two teenage undocumented immigrants in the early to mid 2000s struggling with the question of how to obtain legal status.
María Victoria Martínez displays a deep reserve of hard-won fortitude as G, a high school student who frequently crashes at her friend B’s apartment. Hernán Angulo exudes bewilderment as B, who feels trapped in a life under the radar, afraid to apply for college lest he get caught. Their circumstances are different, but they’re in this together, maybe each other’s sole source of support.
In the center of the pale tiled floor is a large square ringed with floor grates, mirrored by a parallel square of fluorescent lights overhead. For almost the first hour of director David Mendizábal’s tightly choreographed production, the two teenage characters seldom if ever leave that square. They constantly shift positions within it as they jump back and forth in time from one fragment of a scene to another. Usually they seem to be in B’s room, but other times they could be anywhere.
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