El Teatro Campesino’s ‘La Pastorela’ returns as a living holiday ritual in San Juan Bautista

CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION through Dec. 21 at El Teatro Campesino’s packing shed playhouse in San Juan Bautista, “La Pastorela” is an adaptation of a 16^th-century Mexican passion play first staged by the company 50 years ago as a puppet show.

Reflecting the values of this farmworkers’ theater company, founded six decades ago at the beginning of Cesar Chavez’s Grape Strike in Delano, it is a timeless celebration of faith, family, and the continuity of tradition.