Plays written by Elvira Carrizal-Dukes include Father's Shadow/ Sombra del Padre (Dramatic Publishing, 2001), P.I.G. (Pimps, Illegals, Gangsters), Escaping Juarez, Silencio No Mas, Border Ballad Twinkle Toe Patrol: A Chicanx Musical, Confessions from La Tuna, Three Inmigrante Bluffs, Sifu Bisabuela (Master Great-Grandmother), and El Billonario Inocente.
2010 - present
2010 - present
Father's Shadow/Sombra del Padre
Full-length Play
Si TV Playwriting Award (KCACTF)
Father's Shadow/Sombra del Padre, a Mexican family drama, maps the difficult journey of a young woman and her friends and family through a confusing legacy of pain, abuse and misunderstanding. Yet it is not just a journey of sadness but also one of joy, insight and ultimately revelation. The play takes place over a course of five years in a cluster of homes that forms a community of south Texas. Like the border between Texas and Mexico in reality, the borders between these two places in the play are both incredibly rigid and strangely flexible. Likewise, the border between "reality" and "dream" in Father's Shadow/Sombra del Padre is sometimes impenetrable, leaving the characters unable to escape, and sometimes almost immaterial, allowing the characters to confront those whith whom they feel they have lost touch emotionally or spiritually.