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A-Típico 4: Latinx New Play Festival
TEATRO CHELSEA’S 4th ANNUAL A-TÍPICO: A NEW LATINX PLAY FESTIVAL || FINALIST ANNOUNCED!
Teatro Chelsea is excited to announce our featured new plays for our 4th Annual A-Típico New Latinx Play Festival this December 7-9!
Out of over 40 submissions from across the United States and Latin America, these three plays have been chosen for staged readings here at the Chelsea Theatre Works Blackbox:
RSVP HEREThursday December 7th @ 7pm
Beheading Columbus by Diana Burbano, Directed by Luz Lopez
Beheading Columbus follows two sisters down a trail of DNA deception and makes them face race and colorism in the Latinx community and in their own family. Lana is white passing, Susi isn’t, and that's been a point of conflict their whole life. Through DNA testing they discover that Lana has a white father. The DNA test also reveals that Susi, who is mixed race, has the genes for the Alzheimers that is destroying their mother. Add to that, they discover that the previously unknown other father is a fertility doctor who has sired at least 40 mixed race children. Through love and a massive sense of humor, the sisters work at decolonizing themselves from the inside out.
Friday December 8th 7pm
Alba by Alejandro Rodriguez, Directed by Mariela Lopez-Ponce
This adaptation of Lorca's masterpiece, House of Bernarda Alba, consolidates the family from five daughters to three, and transposes the action to working-class Miami. It puts the matriarch, now a hard-working Cuban immigrant, Alba Romero, center stage, not to amplify her legendary militancy -- though she remains tough as nails -- but to contextualize and illuminate how, and why, she raises her daughters the way she does. The play is intergenerational, multilingual, filled with humor and flourishes of magic, and though scholars would perhaps call it an exploration of "intergenerational trauma," I call it a love letter to the women I come from, tough Hispanic moms who are way too often misunderstood.
Saturday December 9th 7pm .
El Puente // The Bridge by Sandra Ruiz , Directed by Armando Rivera
Denise returns to her family home for the 25th Birthday of her little brother, Carlos. This is her first time back in over a year and her family had no idea she was coming. Of course, her family is less than thrilled to see her. She has missed a ton of Family Chisme while at the same time being the main character, behind her back of course, in all of her family's chisme. Dad just wants to watch his soccer game in peace. Mom just wants peace and her older sister, Angelica, wants to create her own peace. The family sits to watch a Sunday morning soccer game while they each try to find their own peace.
Any questions or inquiries can be sent to Armando Rivera (Artistic Director): tc@teatrochelsea.com
Previous A-Tipico Festival Finalists:
A-Típico III
A-Típico II
A-Típico I
Teatro Chelsea
Teatro Chelsea celebrates Latin cultures, showcases and fosters local talent, builds community in Chelsea through arts engagement and collaboration, and is establishing a hub for Latin artists in the Boston metropolitan area. Teatro Chelsea creates theatre at the crossroads of languages, cultures, and histories that make up the Latin experience, and seeks to amplify and honor the voices that speak to these unique experiences.
Teatro Chelsea welcomes all and brings together people with different talents and passions. Love to sew? You can make costumes. Love to write music? You can create a sound design. You don’t need theatre experience and the time commitment is individual. Adults, youth, groups of friends, and businesses can all be involved. What’s your talent? What do you have to lend? Teatro Chelsea would love to have you!
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Teatro Chelsea and The Huntington Collaborate On New Latine Play Reading Initiative
Teatro Chelsea and The Huntington announce a new Latine play reading initiative to collegially explore and celebrate the work of Latine writers with a series of play readings, conversations, and convenings in the coming year.
The two organizations launched this initiative with a reading of Jacuzzi by Cuban playwright and activist Yunior Garcia and translated and directed by Huntington Artist-in-Residence Melinda Lopez at The Huntington Theatre.
The Huntington and Teatro Chelsea have collaborated on past projects, including an online presentation in connection with Teatro Chelsea's production of Sonia Se Fue in 2020 and works included in The Huntington's audio play series Dream Boston, and look forward to deepening their relationship.