Lark Play Development Center Presents Plays From U.S./Mexico Playwright Exchange

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce that five Mexican plays from its U.S./México Playwright Exchange will be presented at Chicago's Goodman Theatre from July 23 - 25, presented in partnership with several local companies Aguijón Theater Company, 16th Street Theater, Teatro Luna, Teatro Vista, and Urban Theater Company. These presentations are part of the Goodman's bi-annual Latino Theatre Festival.

While the focus of Lark's internationally collaborative program is to bring U.S. and Mexican playwrights together in order to create English translations of new work from México for U.S. audiences, the program also works to bring Mexican voices into the mainstream of the U.S. theater scene. According to Goodman Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez, "We at Goodman have become acutely aware of the benefits of extending the remarkable work the Lark has done beyond New York and of its potentially significant impact on the broader American theatre."

The plays being presented at the Goodman which come from the Lark's U.S/México program, which was created eight years ago, are:

Our Dad is in Atlantis by Javier Malpica, translated by Jorge Cortiñas
Of Princes, Princesses and Other Creatures by Paola Izquierdo, translated by Susana Cook
Deserts by Hugo Alfredo Hinojosa Díaz, translated by Caridad Svich
A Lover's Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse by Elena Guiochins, translated by Andy Bragen
Yamaha 300 by Cutberto López Reyes, translated by Mando Alvarado
For more information about the Lark Play Development Center's U.S./MÉXICO Playwright Exchange Program, led by playwright Andrea Thome, please visit: www.larktheatre.org. For more information on the Goodman Theatre's Latino Theatre Festival, please visit: www.goodmantheatre.org.

A laboratory for new voices and new ideas, the LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER provides playwrights with indispensable resources to develop their work. The Lark brings together actors, directors, playwrights and the community to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director, Michael Robertson.