Brava Presents
The Long Walk Home: A Mayan Family's Journey In Search of Refuge
A work in progress presentation of Act 2
by David R. Molina
Sunday, October 26, 2025
7:00pm
Brava Cabaret
“The Long Walk Home” by David R. Molina, is a concert documentary sharing a Guatemalan Mayan family’s epic, harrowing journey to the USA, their separation, reunification, resilience, and joy as a professional clown troupe. Act 2’s work in progress will focus on the mother’s journey north with her two children.
More About the project
Conceived, composed, designed and co-directed by David Molina, “The Long Walk Home: A Mayan Family's Journey In Search of Refuge” is an audio documentary-concert which shares the epic true story of La Familia Rodriguez, a Guatemalan Mayan family who fled violence in their homeland, survived a dangerous journey to the USA, narco predators, kidnapping, family separation in U.S. detention centers, their miraculous reunification, and their joy as a professional clown troupe.
Act 1 premiered in December 2023, and focused on the father‘s and eldest son’s journey north. Act 2 will share the mother’s and two younger children’s migration north. A quartet of amazing Bay Area musicians will perform a live soundtrack which blends minimalism, jazz, ambient, electronic, and Guatemalan folk music. “The Long Walk Home” reflects over two years of interviews with La Familia, activists, and lawyers conducted and recorded by Molina and co-edited with social justice theater artist Roberto G. Varea. Together they created an audio script in which the recorded voices provide an impactful, first person, narration to “The Long Walk Home”. Though the piece is primarily in Spanish, supertitles make it accessible to English and Spanish speakers.
*WARNING: This production contains sensitive subject matter including: family separation, kidnapping, forced detention, and sexual violence.
Credits: David R. Molina: Conception, Composition, Sound Design, Script, Producer
Roberto G. Varea: Dramaturgy, Script, Co-Direction, Translation
Luis Cali: Pre Hispanic Mayan Instruments Design
Musicians: Jaimeo Brown, Tim DeCillis, Liliana Herrera, Natalie John, & Molina
WATCH excerpts here
““This story that must be shared. It is my and every immigrants story from Latin America””
“I never experienced anything like it. It was beautiful, mesmerizing, and heartbreaking.”
