LA Escena 2018
Plays
Women and Servants, by Lope de Vega
WHO’S REALLY CALLING THE SHOTS?
Sylvia Blush and Jean Carlo Yunen Aróstegui direct Lope de Vega’s recently rediscovered comedia, which traces the play of class, loyalty, and desire in a very modern Madrid. In English.
El Merolico (The Mountebank)
WHO CAN BELIEVE HIS STORIES, AND WHAT IS HE SELLING?
Cutting-edge Mexican company EFE Tres Teatro presents a reworking of Cervantes’ comic interludes as delivered by a traveling performer in small-town Mexico. In Spanish, with English supertitles.
El príncipe inocente (The Innocent Prince), by Lope de Vega
MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, LOST PRINCES, AND LESS-THAN-NOBLE BEHAVIOR MAKE FOR A ROYAL MESS
EFE Tres presents Lope de Vega’s meditation on political power and culpability, reimagined as a dialogue between two prisoners in their cell. In Spanish, with English supertitles.
School for Witches, or Friendship Betrayed, by Madhuri Shekar
Golden Tongues staged reading, in collaboration with Playwrights’ Arena
BASED ON MARÍA DE ZAYAS’ LA TRAICIÓN EN LA AMISTAD
Friendships are not always what they seem to be, especially when love gets in the way. In English.
Like/Share, by Janine Salinas Schoenberg
Golden Tongues staged reading, in collaboration with Playwrights’ Arena
BASED ON CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA’S LOS CABELLOS DE ABSALÓN
When a night of college partying goes wrong, what you see is not always what you get. In English.
La Locura de Los Ángeles (The Madness of Angels), by Michael Premsrirat
Golden Tongues staged reading, in collaboration with Playwrights’ Arena
BASED ON LOPE DE VEGA’S LOS LOCOS DE VALENCIA
It’s a scintillating LA in the summer of ’91, and the entire world seems to have gone mad. In English.
LA Escena was made possible by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Center for European and Russian Studies, Latin American Institute, and Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Theater, and English, as well as by the generous support of UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, UC MEXUS, and the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Pomona.
