SCR to Take On Gangs With Play for Schoolchildren

At South Coast Repertory, the pen is mightier than the colors. The theater in Costa Mesa plans to take on Orange County gangs with a 30-minute play to be written by Roy Conboy of Garden Grove. The production will tour junior and senior high schools countywide.

“We’re thinking about doing it in February or March,” says Jose Cruz Gonzalez, who heads SCR’s Hispanic Playwrights Project. “We want to give children the idea that they don’t have to join a gang for self-esteem.”