US Premiere of LA RAZON BLINDIDA' at 24th St. Theatre Extends To 11/14

24th Street Theatre's LA RAZON BLINDADA has extended again until November 14. The show was named LA Times Critic's Choice by F. Kathleen Foley who said, "Echoes of Kakfa and Beckett resound throughout in effusive, elliptical interchanges that are often nonsensical, sometimes didactic...the effect is hallucinatory, trance-inducing and surreal, an absurdist construct that hammers home man's gross capacity for inhumanity - and his transcendent ability to endure."

Deborah Klugman of LA Weekly says, "Writer/director Aristides Vargas' drew inspiration for this poignantly horrific black comedy from the experience of his brother, a political prisoner in Argentina during that country's military dictatorship...The performances are consummate and the staging, as eloquent as the text, features a videographed landscape over which, their sunken shadows pass, and Faure's ‘Elegie for Violoncello and Orchestra' to underscore the pathos."

In his internationally acclaimed stage work, LA RAZON BLINDIDA, Argentine-born playwright/director Aristides Vargas infuses Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel, 'El Quijote' with Franz Kafka's, 'The Truth About Sancho Panza', and testimonies by Chicho Vargas and other political prisoners held in the 1970's at the Rawson Prison during Argentina's dictatorship. Two political prisoners, oppressed by physical and emotional abuse, find solace in meeting every Sunday at dusk to tell the story of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Their storytelling unravels amidst the extreme limitations imposed by their condition of inmates in a maximum security prison. The production features Jesus Castaños-Chima, Tony Duran and Arturo Diaz de Sandy

LA RAZON BLINDIDA continues, Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm, until November 14th at the 24th Street Theatre, 1117 West 24th Street (at 24th & Hoover). Parking is available in the 24th Street Theatre lot. General admission is $24 with $15 tickets for teachers, students, and seniors. Tickets for North University Park Area Residents are 24 cents.

For tickets, call 213-745-6516 or email theatre@24thstreet.org

Co-founded by Debbie Devine and Jay McAdams, 24th Street Theatre has been a cultural mainstay of the Greater Los Angeles area since 1997. For further information about 24th Street productions, educational programs and tours, visit its website: http://www.24thstreet.org.