SOURCE: Review of Heroes and Saints, in The Nation, Vol. 255, No. 14, November 2, 1992, pp. 518-20.

In the following review, Gelb notes that in Heroes and Saints Moraga "has written with compassion and intelligence about the difficulties of change," although she fails to fully explore some of her principal characters.

As one of several Bay Area feminists who made their reputations in other genres but are now (or again) writing for the theater, Cherríe Moraga has expressed a desire to create plays that inspire a new vision while they challenge political correctness.

And in many respects her new work, Heroes and Saints, produced by Brava! For Women in the Arts at San Francisco's Mission Cultural Center, does just that. An unusual blend of realism, surrealism and political theater, it is written partly in English, partly in Spanish. Moraga sets the play in a San Joaquin Valley town where growers...