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Luis Valdez: The Zoot Suit Play

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Luis Valdez is an amazing playwright that created the Zoot Suit Play. He is best known as the father of Chicano theater. The Zoot suit play is based on a young man named Henry Reyna who is part of a street gang called the 38th. The opening scene is at a dance, where the 38th street gang get into a clash with the Downey gang. Unfortunately Henry’s brother named Rudy starts a fight from there they both go their own ways. Henry and his girlfriends named Della go to the Sleepy lagoon when all of a sudden they hear a party going on at a ranch across from the lagoon then the downey gang appears and the leader of downey gang wants to finish the fight they started with henry. Henry ended up all bruised up because it was him versus everyone in the downey

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