Latea Theatre to Present THE STORY OF THE WOMAN OF THE SEA, 6/21-30

A classic of queer Puerto Rican literature, Manuel Ramos Otero's "El Cuento de la Mujer del Mar" follows the winding story of the narrator and his lover, Angelo, in 1970's New York. The men try to reimagine the city, their relationship and their existence through the tale of a woman, Palmira Parés, a poet whose life parallels in many ways that of the master Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos

This staging keeps the original text of the short story intact, as a continuous narration comes together with visceral actions and evocative physical and multimedia images in a hallucinating poetic theatrical flow.

Directed by Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya in collaboration with: Eyerí Cruz, Jesús Miranda, Mickey Negrón, Rafael Pagán, José Enrique Rodríguez Arzola, Alejandra Maldonado, Awilda Rodríguez Lora, Christopher Cancel and Deborah Hunt.

Tickets: smarttix.com

Sponsored by: El Fondo Puertorriqueño para el Financiamiento del Quehacer Cultural de la Oficina de Apoyo a las Artes del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and the Comisión Conjunta de Donativos de la Legislatura de Puerto Rico.

Established in 1982 Teatro LATEA is an award-winning nonprofit Off-Off Broadway Latino theater. LATEA fosters and promotes the cultural heritage and talents of Latinos, as producers, writers, directors and performing artists while providing access to a diverse group of professional and emerging artists. It is the founder of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Educational Center, one the City's largest and ethnically diverse arts incubator and where the theater is housed. LATEA is a proud member of The Alliance of Latino Theaters, New York.

Considered one of the most vital experimental theatre companies on the Island, Casa Cruz de la Luna is based in an old house in the historical district of San German, Puerto Rico. Its productions have traveled to: Havana, London, Lima, Santo Domingo, Amsterdam and various cities in the U.S. They have encompassed from daring new approximations to the classic works of García Lorca, Maeterlinck, Cervantes, Borges, Beckett and Aeschylus, to plays by Puerto Rican contemporary authors like José Liboy, Mayra Santos Febres, Lina Nieves Avilés and Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya. Under Adyanthaya´s direction, the group has developed a training and research program on theatre and technology, also expanding their explorations to the use of a variety of alternative spaces and to the study of trance and chaos onstage.

Manuel Ramos Otero is one of the most critically acclaimed Puerto Rican writers of the second half of the twentieth century. His fiction and poems are characterized by an intrinsic exploration of homosexuality and exile, by a constant love to the materiality of words and by a profound reflection on the act of writing. Among his books are: Metal Concert for a Memory and other Orgies of Solitude (1971), La novelabingo (1976), The Story of the Woman of the Sea (1979), The Book of Death (1985), Blank Page and Staccato (1987), Invitation to Dust (1991), and Cuentos de buena tinta (1992). For more than twenty years he lived and wrote in New York City. He died in San Juan in 1990 from AIDS-related complications. According to his wishes, his ashes were spread in Mar Chiquita, in the sea of his hometown of Manati.

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