The HEart’s Desire

By José Cruz Gonzàles

Performances

Performances of this work have concluded

About the play

A drama about a Mexican-American WWII veteran who returns home with not only a new, young French wife, but also a new outlook on life. As he tries to make the best out of his situation and settle down to farm on a small plot of land, he is reminded that his hometown still carries prejudices from his father's generation.

About the playwright

Clinnesha Dillon Sibley (Playwright) is a literary artist, educator, and humanities scholar. Her play Uprooted was in the 2012 Arkansas New Play Festival and later appeared at The Cell Theatre in New York and the Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas. Other playwriting credits include: Tell Martha Not to Moan (Penumbra Theatre, Athena Project Arts Festival, The Union for Contemporary Arts); Naked: What Women and Their Bodies Represent to America (The Joust Theatre); Play Dead (Art House Production’s In Full Color Celebration of Women). She is a recipient of the Holland New Voices Award, Mississippi Theatre Association Playwriting Award, an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, a National Arts Strategies Creative Communities Fellowship, and an Arts Institute of Mississippi (AIM) Award in Creative Writing. Her writing has also appeared in national literary journals, anthologies, and publications including HowlRound, Black Acting Methods, and Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama. She holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from the University of Arkansas and a B.A. from Tougaloo College. She is currently the literary arts instructor at Mississippi School of the Arts.