A remembrance of theater actor-writer-director Diane Rodriguez from a fellow El Teatro Campesino family member, 'Zoot Suit' playwright Luis Valdez.
for the arts from Los Angeles to Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. She was in the end the distillation of all the forces that had molded her as she evolved into one of the most influential defenders of the American theater community in all its colors, works and vibrations.A month ago, when my wife, Lupe, and I last saw Diane, it was around the death bed of her cousin, Felipe Rodriguez, another ‘70s member of the Teatro family.
As we reminisced with the Rodriguez family, I recalled that back in the mid-'50s my family lived on a dead-end dirt street in East San Jose that we called Sal Si Puedes . On the corner of that block was an old wooden Protestant church that was always filled with song and human voices on Sunday. This was the church attended by the Rodriguez family, who as it turned out were Methodists. Diane must have been 5 years old at the time.
We all live in denial with respect to death, particularly of our loved ones if not of ourselves, but life forces us to face the inevitable. The incredible truth about Diane is that she knew it was coming for the last year and half, and she still went on working and living to the hilt despite chemo and radiation and all the horrible consequences of our fragile human physicality. Obviously, her spirit was strong and love of life insuperable.
Ultimately, all we have is the universality of our human being, for we are all connected in the common core of our Creator. God bless you, Diane, and may God speed you to your cosmic rebirth.
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