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Cervantes inventó un caballero andante, un Quijote, que no ganó batallas, un loco que amaba la libertad para hacer el bien. Siempre pareció un buscador de lo justo y lo verdadero. La locura de atreverse a decir la verdad. Los personajes de la mítica novela de la literatura española necesitaron para existir en nuestros ensayos de una balada que descubriera el camino hacia un tejido nuevo. Los actores a veces rompen las reglas del realismo con acciones sorprendentes. A esos actores la técnica para interpretar los protege. La metafísica del teatro no es más que lo ético y lo técnico, otorgándole en cada ensayo y en cada representación, un nuevo valor al silencio.\ This event will be presented in Spanish only./Este evento se presentará solamente en Español.

El mayor best seller literario costarricense, una novela escrita por José León Sánchez en 1968. Narra los terribles acontecimientos ocurridos en la cárcel de San Lucas, isla ubicada en el Pacífico costarricense. En 2016, Teatro Espressivo decide llevar a las tablas esta relevante novela. La dramaturga Caridad Svich realizó una adaptación al teatro. Un elenco de experimentados actores da vida a esta obra, que constituye una intensa reflexión sobre el valor de la libertad. Este evento se presentará exclusivamente en Español. / This event will be presented in Spanish only.

City Theatre's Summer Shorts: Homegrown Edition features a lineup of new short plays by Miami's hottest playwrights. Stay cool with eight refreshing and revealing 10-minute plays spotlighting the voices of our community. Set against the backdrop of the Magic City, these provocative and entertaining stories feature a cast of diverse, Miami-based actors under the vision of City Theatre artistic director Margaret M. Ledford.

90 min No intermission Mild adult language In this sparkling comedy of good intentions and bad manners, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.

Mr. Hatred is a lonely, sullen, and very bad-tempered character. One day, very early in the morning, he received the notification that a new neighbor will move to the apartment next door. This upsets him so much that he decides to prevent that move. What he doesn't know is that the new neighbor is Mrs. Love, a character completely opposite to him, which makes everything worse. Thus, Mr. Hatred undertakes a plan to attack his new neighbor and prevent her from settling in that apartment. What our hateful character does not know, is that everything he will try to do against his neighbor, will turn in him changing his life.

The MARJCC's JCAT company proudly presents Eurydice, directed by J.C. Gutierrez In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

A World Premiere By Vanessa Garcia In collaboration with Abre Camino Collective Directed by Sarah Hughes and Victoria Collado Catherine is searching for something authentic as she embarks on a “Lewis-and-Clark-esque” trip across America sponsored by Monteverde Moonshine with her new lover and colleague, Lewis. Along the way, they pick up a wayward nun named Rosalie who has just gone through deep loss, meet a queer homeschooled teenager named Blake and rummage through the layers of migration and gender inequity that make up America. As Catherine travels, she comes to more questions than answers about “the real America,” her own identity and what authenticity even means anymore.

En este espectáculo, a través de una selección de poemas y canciones, le rendimos tributo a esas mujeres que a través de la historia levantaron sus voces para rebelarse ante lo establecido. Mujeres que abrazaron el dolor para convertirlo en sublimes creaciones. Mujeres rebeldes. Mujeres malditas para algunos. No están todas, pero que este tributo sirva como un humilde homenaje a todas ellas.

Three years ago, the producers of this project began a series of workshops interviewing immigrant actors and actresses from different nations around the world. Through their work, they were able to connect a series of stories that tell talk about the global experiences of being an immigrant in the 21st century. Japanese American Costume and Scenic Designer Michiko Kitayama-Skinner was inspired by their stories and her own experience living here in Miami seeing artists use their cultural backgrounds to experiment with new forms of storytelling to create The Passport Project. Along with her partners New York-based Sound Designer Eric Lawson and Artistic Director of the Nordic Black Theater Cliff Moustache, they have created an immersive theatrical experience that allows you to live the stories of these incredible people for yourself. This Project is a free project presented through a partnership with the University of Miami Department of Theater Arts and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. Venue: Red Road Black Box Studio 6565 Red Road Coral Gables, FL 33146

It’s the year 2000 in Reading, Pennsylvania and a group of friends go to work at the steel mill and then decompress at the bar like they’ve been doing for over 20 years. But, unbeknownst to them, their lives are about to be uprooted. Their steel mill, Olstead’s, is making some changes and the blood, sweat and tears, not to mention the generations of loyalty these workers have shown, don’t seem to amount to much. These middle class, unionized, steelworkers have made plans to save money, go on vacations and then retire with a nice, healthy pension, but when rumors start flying that the company is considering layoffs, and flyers are hung to recruit non-union Latino workers for less money, the war between community and capitalism begins, and tensions start destroying not only jobs, but also relationships. This poignant play takes a look at the de-industrial revolution through the lens of a history play, but also delves into the issues of today: the economy, immigration, race-relations in America, and politics. Lynn Nottage’s Sweat gives us characters filled with the good and the bad and asks us to reflect on our own views and the views of others. Nottage never tells us who’s right or who’s wrong, but always shows us who’s human.