It's January 1, 2001 in southern Chile. A wealthy sponsor of Latin American revolutions appears shipwrecked on a shrinking patch of thin ice along with a ghost, a gun, a knife and a secret admirer. Wisdom from relations with Pablo Neruda, Frida Kahlo, Fidel Castro, and others guide the castaways to an escape route, yet just one can survive.

The play - a celebration of  Latin American revolutionaries and the potential for revolutionary change in everyone - shows how survival skills can ultimately backfire if unexplored or overused, and can delude one’s sense of self and whole being.

Charles Darwin, Her True Story was one of four plays selected via a national search by North Star for their 2020 New Plays Workshop Intensive, the Playwrights Center for their first Open Play Showcase actors’ reading, and by the Dramatists Guild for their Footlights actors’ reading series. 

Dramatic readings have included the following lead actors: Sarah Nina Hayon (Wintertime, Berkeley Rep), Sean San Jose (Artistic Director, Magic Theatre), Elena Ruggiero (Berkeley PlayCafe), Juan Amador (CampoSanto), Alisha Espinosa (NorthStar), and Joel Oramas (NorthStar).

Latinx Mafia produces Charles Darwin, Her True Story as one of nine plays selected for PlayGround's 2022 Innovators Showcase Festival, starring L. Duarte and Hector Zavala and directed by Terezina Vital.