24th Street's Teatro Internacional Presents Mexican Theatre Company's SENORA DE LAS NUBES, 2/3

Our International Latino Theatre Initiative, Teatro Internacional, presents Nuestra Señora de las Nubes, directed by Arturo Díaz de Sandy, written by Ecuadorian playwright Aristides Vargas.

This is a Mexican production, performed in Spanish, from the Sinoloan company Taller Laboratorio de Actuación UAS TLAUAS. ONE NIGHT ONLY! Tickets just $10. Feb 3rd, 8pm, 24th Street Theatre. Email for reservations... theatre@24thstreet.org

In addition to Nuestra Señora de las Nubes , we'll be partnering with the Mexican Government to co-produce another show in collaboration with famed Ecuadorian playwright/director Aristides Vargas. And we'll be taking El Ogrito to El Salvador, Colombia, and Mexico this year in addition to taking it to Santa Barbara County.  

Nuestra Señora de las Nubes (subtitled as an 'exercise on exile') tells the story of the encounters of two political exiles who meet in a nondescript place and time to share memories of their homeland, an ethereal, fictional town called Nuestra Señora de las Nubes (Our Lady of the Clouds). Constantly alternating between present realities and past memories, and with two pieces of luggage as sole belongings, the characters share anecdotes of their experience as exiles, their dreams, needs, frustrations, desires, loves, oblivions and memories.

A town that only exists in the memory of expatriates, Nuestra Señora maps the experience of diaspora as an existential condition of permanent uprootedness, in this case inspired by the history of Latin American exile. Exile, in this work, becomes not only the physical loss of one's homeland, but the erosion of one's ability to remain inside one's own memories. Memory as a sort of joint venture, then, allows for the construction of a new territory to belong to, a new homeland of affect where to survive, yearn and remember.

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