Historias para Mejorar el Mundo ("Stories for a Better World) are a collection of wildly creative plots dramatizing contemporary urban issues like Immigration, Unemployment, Family Life, Domestic Violence, Health, Discrimination, Gangs, Tradition, Values, Religion, Sexuality, and Love — all from a Latino experience.
Called "theater of the mind," the award-winning Historias uses imagination and fantasy to create stories of comedy, farce, melodrama, and tragedy:
A wife whose story of marital abuse is discovered in the pages of her diary.
An environmentalist who lives in a tree to protect it from being cut down.
A convict who undergoes the barbaric punishment of the death penalty.
We find heroes in each story, and we create elaborate adventures to capture their meaning, like visiting the animal world to portray dictatorships and inequality, or traveling to a distant land to talk to the Man Who Knew Everything.
Through these real and imaginary worlds, we come to understand the moral of each story — and in so doing, we embrace these stories for a better world.
PROGRAM SPECIFICATIONS
Format: 30-minute radio dramas (24 minutes of radio drama, 6 minutes of available ad spots)
Quantity: 37 episodes
Starring: Ricardo Montalbán, David Barrera (American Family, NYPD Blue, 24), Lupe Ontiveros (As Good As It Gets, Selena, Desperate Housewives, Greetings from Tucson), Jorge Cervera, Jr. (Three Amigos), Sal López (Luminarias, Selena), Maria Canals (American Family, Brothers Garcia), Emilio Delgado (Sesame Street), Ruth Livier (Resurrection Blvd.), Mauricio Mendoza (Resurrection Blvd.), Mario Lopez (Pacific Blue, Saved By the Bell), Randy Vasquez (JAG), and singers Lalo Guerrero and Chan Romero among others.
