Christine Quintana’s El Terromoto shakes things up at Tarragon Theatre with its inspired approach to adaptation

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El Terromoto becomes more entirely engaging once it is shaken up – and leaves behind Chekhov’s brand of realism for a different genre that’s more Latin American

El Terromoto begins with a Chekhovian trio of sisters gathering at the family home, in East Vancouver, to celebrate the youngest’s birthday, their parents, Mexican-born, long deceased.Whenever times get tight in theatre, living playwrights have to adapt or die: If you want to say something new on a stage, you must find an older play or book to say it through in order to be produced and attract cash-strapped, risk-adverse audiences.

Luz is, like her late mother, a professor at the University of British Columbia; unmarried, around 40, she assumed the role of family matriarch after her mother died at the age she is now. Ditching Chekhov to interrogate a common Canadian experience from a specific perspective, Quintana has her sisters explore a spectrum of feelings about dislocation – having immigrated as a child, as a baby, or being born in Canada, respectively.

There’s fine work too by Mónica Garrido Huerta and especially Juan Carlos Velis as pair of characters who arrive later in the show.

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