SOURCE: Review of Shadow of a Man, in Theatre Journal. Vol. 47, No. 3, October 1995, pp. 412-14.

In the following review: Wiley finds Denver's Su Teatro production of Shadow of a Man "triumphant" for women, particularly Latinas.

Denver, capital of the only state to pass legislation forbidding the inclusion of sexual orientation in official anti-discrimination language, seems an unlikely place to stage a play by lesbian writer Cherríe Moraga, but theatre about AIDS, coming out stories, and plays written by openly gay authors have never been so popular here.

Denver's El Centro Su Teatro, one of the oldest amateur bilingual teatro Chicanos in the United States, is Poor Theater at its best. In a partially remodelled school flanked by a Purina Dog Chow factory and Interstate 70 located in one of Denver's oldest and poorest barrios, Su Teatro has served its community for over twenty years.

Moraga's play [Shadow of...