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Little Ghost Little Ghost started out as a screenplay before Yurcic, with some coaching from Santa Fe Performing Arts (SFPA) artistic director W. Nicholas Sabato, turned it into an abstract, mixed-media piece for theater. The protagonist is Emiliano (played by Angelo Jaramillo), a fatherless boy protected by the street-smart dealer Little Freddy (Frederick Lopez). Little Freddy dubs Emiliano Little Ghost and teaches him survival skills: how to fight, how to deliver drugs, how to use a gun. A jail cell soon beckons Little Ghost. But a spirit figure (Rudy "Froggy" Fernandez) — who, the play suggests, may be a living poem — urges Little Ghost to write, and the young prisoner starts setting down his thoughts on paper, using words as his weapon. Soon he's poetry-slamming his way out of a dead end, aided in part by his mother (Carmella Gonzales) and a supportive woman (Kieran Sequoia). The play includes a poetry-slam sequence featuring regional poets presenting their work within the context of the story. Yurcic said he "dumbed down" the poems he wrote for his protagonist, so it seemed as though Emiliano really was fumbling his way through the artistic process. |
 Two halves make a whole lot of trouble: from left, Carmella Gonzales Frederick Lopez, and Angelo Jaramillo Photo by Jane Phillips/The New Mexican Articles on Little Ghost:
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