speaking foreign language] noe: i actually joined el teatro campesino when they first moved to san juan bautista was a junior in high school there in hollister but i saw the group perform at gavilan college, and i just fell in love with it. damian: you never let go. noe: and when they moved to san juan, i said, "i've gotta be a part of this." and i've been with them off and on, since then, you know, i did go away for about 25 years to work with other groups, sharing what i had learned from el teatro. but then it was time to come back, come back home. you know, and i've been there since 200 damian: and when you first started playing the role of juan diego, you're not juan diego anymore but when you started that role, he wasn't a saint, he was regular juan diego. noe: back in the seventies, the "la virgen del tepayac" was performed every year and then eventually they incorporated la pastorela and so we alternated and so i had the pleasure and the honor to be asked by luis to play juan diego in the 70s and i did it for four consecutive years. i was young in my 20s and then i went away, and i came b