Hystyria: A Carmilla Adaptation at Teatro LATEA

Is desire sinful, or is it the supression of that desire which damns us? Who gets to tell and re-interpret the monstrous female experience? How thin really is the line between violence and all-consuming passion?

Hystyria is a deliberately queer, physical, and "gorgeous and delicious" adaptation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella Carmilla, written and directed by Riley K Webster and assistant directed by Kayla Joya. Laura's life has been carefully maintained, pathologized, and contained by the patriarchal family structure of Biedermeier Austria since her mother's early death. Then Carmilla arrives. The mysterious and enigmatic young woman threatens to undo every careful stitich that has bound Laura up until now. In turn, however, something ancient, animal, and sublime threatens to bubble over within Carmilla herself when she finally meets her match.

Hystyria will haunt Teatro LATEA with the NY Winterfest for a limited run of three nights only; January 29th at 9pm, January 31st at 12pm, and February 1st at 8:30pm. The show runs approximately 80 minutes with no intermission.