José Cruz González's new play, 'Under a Baseball Sky,' is inspired by the Mexican American community of Logan Heights. The world premiere production runs Feb. 16 through March 12 at The Old Globe.
I grew up here in San Diego and — again connecting with my father — my father was a part of an organization when I was a child called Community Arts Center and it brought artists from all over the country, but primarily San Diego. I spent a lot of time down in the Logan Heights area, in the downtown area, just celebrating that community and the arts in that community. So I really grew up watching a community build itself and support each other in that growth of itself.
And José, San Diegans will recognize this community. But as you wrote it, were you imagining how the play would be received in other cities?Yes, I've been blessed to travel across this country to many communities and to see how these immigrant communities were planted in terms of community arriving there to find work and of course raising their families and their children becoming part of the American fabric.
So there was something really, to me, appealing about looking at it, looking through the lens of baseball, but through the lens of an immigrant community. As James was saying, celebrating that history and and that tenacity of carving out a world, a life for their families, wherever these stories took — the inspiration, of course, was Logan Heights because it really was the place that I came to when researching the play.
This play follows two main characters, a younger one described as a troublemaker and his elderly neighbor. José, can you tell us about these two, and why you chose this intergenerational friendship at the heart of the story? We have a 16-year-old boy who's got in trouble at school and it's just devastated him for so many reasons.
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