Carmelita Tropicana Set for El Museo del Barrio Tonight, 5/31

Playwright, actor, and performance artist Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano) has long entranced New York audiences with her trademark bravado. This month she brings her distinctive brand of whimsy and hilarity to El Museo del Barrio in Post Plastica, a collaboration with her sister, the award-winning writer-director Ela Troyano from tonight, May 31st-June 3rd.

Post Plastica offers a glimpse into a future in which celebrity culture has pitched a battle between the primacy of virtual and artistic lives; revolutionaries keep bees in a secret underground; and a half-woman, half-bear scientist has gained the upper hand.

Doors open to a nightly pre-show event at 6:00pm, with a 7:30pm performance time, at El Museo del Barrio (1230 5th Ave at 104th St., New York, NY 10029). Tickets are $20 ($15 for seniors and students) and can be purchased by visiting www.ps122.org or calling 212-352-3101. The box office will open at El Museo del Barrio at 5:45pm.

Post Plastica is conceived and written by Carmelita Tropicana and Ela Troyano. Ela Troyano directs. The cast features Carmelita Tropicana as well as New York-based performers Becca Blackwell and Erin Markey.

Neither Blackwell nor Markey are strangers to PS122 audiences: Blackwell was most recently seen in Young Jean Lee’s UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW as part of the 2012 COIL festival. Erin Markey performed in Tennessee Williams’ Green Eyes in the 2011 COIL festival, in addition to appearing in her solo musical Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail as part of the 2010 Solo NOVA festival. Both performers have worked with New York-based theater company Half Straddle, directed by Tina Satter, and have been recently seen in the recurring Joe’s Pub series Our Hit Parade.

The production design is by Aliza Shvarts with costumes by Yali Romagoza and lights by Chris Hudacs. There is a digital slide show by Uzi Parnes.

Carmelita Tropicana has been working in downtown theater for over twenty years. She was featured in Troyano’s short film Carmelita Tropicana, which won the coveted Teddy Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as the Audience and Critics award at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Troyano’s video art installations also have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and most recently at the Guggenheim, the Walker Art Center, and The Joyce Theater.

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