STEINBECK OR BUST.(Western Stage adapts Steinbeck's view of Zapata in new play)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, October, 2000 by Wren, Celia
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"LAND AND LIBERTY!"--the rallying cry of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata--rings out across the footlights this month, with a little help from John Steinbeck. In the writer's hometown of Salinas, Calif., the 25-year-old Western Stage is launching the world premiere of Viva Zapata!, a dramatization of the 1952 Steinbeck-scripted movie, which starred a young Marlon Brando as the early 20th-century guerrilla.
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Adapted from the screenplay by Western Stage's outgoing executive director Harvey Landa and directed by Lorenzo Aragon, the new Zapata skirmishes across the boards ...
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