Where:
Mary O'Malley Park
Commandant's Way
Chelsea, MA 02150
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Date Idea, Performing Arts
Event website:
http://www.apollinairetheatre.com/productions/productionspark.html
Apollinaire Theatre Company’s 11th year of offering free bilingual productions on alternating nights in English and Spanish in Chelsea’s Mary O’Malley Park features 2 plays about crossing borders, fear of the Others among us, linguistic slight of hand, and finding one’s voice in the chaos.
At once hilarious, disturbing, and poignant, Invasion! centers around a mysterious name: Abulkasem. First encountered in the historical epic “Signora Luna,” Abulkasem becomes the perfect all-purpose word, and the name of a gay Lebanese dancer, a radical feminist Muslim theatre director, an asylum seeking apple-picker, a stuttering telemarketer, and the world’s most sought after potential terrorist. Swedish playwright Khemiri looks at our fear of The Other from an ever shifting kaleidoscopic array of perspectives.
Invasion! was written for The Stockholm City Theatre and played two seasons of sold out performances. Invasion! has been translated and played in theatres in Norway, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, South Korea, and the UK. In the spring of 2011 it opened in New York, winning Khemiri an Obie Award, and the play returned to New York by popular demand for a second run.
¡Bocón!, a fable filled with humor and mysticism and song, tells the story of twelve-year-old Miguel who flees a repressive military regime in Central America for Los Angeles.
A natural storyteller and irrepressible "big mouth" or bocón, Miguel loses his voice when his parents are taken, and he begins a metaphorical journey north to the City of Angels. Along the way he meets up with an unusual traveling companion, La Llorona, the legendary "Weeping Woman" of Mexican and Central American mythology. Through their magical friendship, Miguel finds his voice and the courage to cross the border to a new life.
"Bocón! is written to be understood in both English and Spanish.
Invasion: Wednesday & Saturday
Invasion en Español: todos los viernes
Bocón: Thursday & Sunday
FREE! !GRATIS!