Policarpa: A Staged Reading
When:
Friday, Jan 31, 2020 7:30p -
10:00p
Friday, Jan 31, 2020 7:30p -
10:00p
Where:
Dorchester Art Project
1486 Dorchester Ave
Dorchester, MA 02122
Admission:
$5-10
Categories:
Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/policarpa-a-staged-reading-tickets-89522557379
We are thrilled to host a staged reading of a new play by Diana Burbano: Policarpa.
Friday, January 31st at 7:30pm, Dorchester Art Project.
$5 entry, $10 entry w/ snacks
No one is turned away.
Post-show conversation with playwright to follow reading.
Directed by Tatiana Isabel Gil.
Cast:
Tanya Avendano Stockler -Ingrid
Luz Lopez- Policarpa
Evelyn Martinez- Valentia
Angelika Menendez- Paciencia
Wren Romero- Realidad
Mikhail Yarovoy- Bibiano/Solado/Viejo
About the piece:
In the near future, an inexplicable plague infests La Gran Colombia. Ingrid Bolivar–the brilliant, mad ex-wife of Colombia’s leader–is the only one who knows that the plague is carried by young women of the streets, whom she adopts and uses as weapons against the government. Policarpa, a girl with magical gifts, is supposed to be Ingrid’s secret apocalyptic weapon. But when Policarpa falls in love with a top government official, she resists becoming an instrument of destruction and instead seeks to become a savior through sacrifice.
Rooted in traditional Latin American magical realism, the nightmare magic science fiction world of Policarpa exists in a neither here-or-there.
Policarpa has been developed by The Drama League’s Rough Draft series, Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab Latinx Play Project, and Milagro Theatre’s Ingenio play reading series. It received an Honorable Mention for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award and was a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
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