The play’s title is allegorical. Emigrants, like the migratory birds, the swallows, move away from their native birthplace but carry within a deep instinctive longing for their homeland. Even though this production ran only4 performances in Teatro de la Luna’s 15th International Hispanic Theater Festival, the show’s indelible images linger.
Las Quiero a las Dos (I Want Them Both)
Ricardo Talesnik is the Neil Simon of Hispanic Theatre. But look out, Talesnik’s humor can throw you off-guard.
Solo Petru (Petru: All by Himself)
Last May, when The 3 Rascals (A3Vidos) performed their rioplatense cafe concert for Teatro de la Luna, the moon was at its brightest in twenty years. Comedian Petru Valenski was an unforgettable member of that trio. He has returned, accompanied, again, by an astronomical event. Look up into the sky tonight and you’ll find Venus and Jupiter […]
As If It Were Tonight (Como si fuera esta noche)
Spanish playwright Gracia Morales transports us into a dream world so magically real, so filled with painful love, you have to remind yourself to breathe. A dressmaker and her daughter allegorically undress slowly until the raw truth of their lives is exposed.