Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) Plays Manuel Noriega in Devil's Advocate at LATC
The Los Angeles Theatre Center (514 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90013)
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Large parking structure right across the street.
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The set was elaborate, much better than I expected. The actors were very commited. Robert Beltran was so good that I want to look up more stuff that he's in. The play was extremely educational and enlightening. I'm glad my companion was able to fill me in on the history behind the play's subject matter at intermission, that made the play even better! The staging was creative and used the whole space. The theater venue was very professional and the program they gave me let me know of other shows in town. I ended up going to another show just 2 days later. I'm glad I attended this performance. I would go to this venue again.Written on Apr 25 2011
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More Information About The Devil's Advocate
Website
http://thelatc.org/seasons/east-of-broadway-spring-season-2011/...
Quotes & Highlights
- Learn more about playwright Donald Freed.
- Visit Robert Beltran's website.
- Learn more about the Latino Theater Company.
Description
The Devil’s Advocate is the story of the capture and breaking of the Panamanian strong man Manuel Noriega by the Vatican’s "devil’s advocate,” Archbishop Jose Sebastian Laboa. Their titanic struggle to the end of the night is based on an astonishing true story.
1989. The CIA and American forces are determined to capture ruthless Panamanian strong man Manuel Noriega. No longer run by the CIA, he has charted his own path to near-absolute power in his country, and the price of his refusal to obey his handlers is an American invasion. Accused of murder, drug trafficking and corruption, he has sought sanctuary with Vatican emissary Archbishop Jose Sebastian Laboa. But the Archbishop has his own agenda to follow, separate from Noriega’s, and the struggle between these two men is the story of Donald Freed’s play The Devil's Advocate,” based on true events.
Robert Beltran portrays Noriega. No stranger to audiences of Latino Theater Company and Los Angeles Theatre Center, he most recently appeared there in its acclaimed production of Solitude. But he’s famed for his film work (especially features directed by the late Paul Bartel) and for his television roles as Jerry Flute on HBO’s Big Love and as fan favorite Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager.
Jacob Witkin plays Laboa. Born in South Africa, he performed with the Sadlers Wells Opera Company and with Sir Benjamin Britten’s English Opera Group. Roles on the West End in Fiddler on the Roof, Daisy Pulls It Off, and Canterbury Tales followed, plus seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In addition to many film and TV roles, his recent Los Angeles credits include Men of Mah Jongg, A Picture of Dorian Gray and Valledemosa.
Jose Luis Valenzuela directs. The longtime artistic director of Latino Theater Company as well as of Los Angeles Theatre Center, he most recently oversaw the LATC’s Ovation-nominated season of excellence, during which he directed “Dementia” and “La Victima.” He is also a Professor at UCLA.
The prolific playwright Donald Freed is, in the words of the late Studs Terkel, “the most political and pertinent of all American playwrights.” The late Harold Pinter called him “a writer of blazing imagination, courage and insight. His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art.”
Freed was nominated for an Ovation Award this past season for his most recent play 1951-2006.
The play received multiple productions in Britain and was workshopped in Burbank. The new production marks its U.S. Premiere as a fully realized main stage production.