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The comedy troupe Culture Clash performed Zorro in Hell a new play at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. They returned to their Bay Area roots where they began at the Galeria de la Raza 22 years ago. In doing so they tackle a myth -Zorro (the fox) was a Spanish folk hero invented in 1919 as a defender of the Mexican people of California by Anglo author, Johnston McCulley.
It's ironic that even back then Zorro was always battling a "deceitful foreign born politician" he called "El Gobernador." The protagonist of this new work is a "failed sitcom writer" commissioned to write a Zorro play and acted with sardonic wit by Richard Montoya. He checks into the mysterious Camino Real Inn run by a "200 year old woman," played with great exuberance by former San Francisco Mime Troupe member Sharon Lockwood. There is also a bellboy dressed like a Spanish Grandee named Don Ringo...