01/15/2014
Check out WOMEN OF CIUDAD JUÁREZ!
Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Yale’s Off-Broadway Theater.
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Yale University’s Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies is pleased to sponsor the performance of Women of Ciudad Juárez on Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Yale’s Off-Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway in New Haven. The performance at Yale is free of charge and open to the public.
Produced by Teatro Travieso/ Troublemaker Theater and directed by Jimmy A. Noriega, Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the College of Wooster, the play is performed by an all student cast from that department. The production is the English-language debut of Mexican actress Cristina Michau’s 2002 Mujeres de Ciudad Juárez, which Michau originally wrote and performed as a one woman show in Spanish. Women of Ciudad Juárez puts on stage the problem of violence against women, taking up the case of femicide in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Four actresses take on the roles of different women, their families and the officials investigating the case, showing us multiple female perspectives – from mothers to daughters, to factory workers to prostitutes – on the meaning of life under the threat of such violence at the Mexican border.
Teatro Travieso/Troublemaker Theatre was founded in 2012 under the direction of Jimmy A. Noriega, who holds a PhD in Theater Studies from Cornell University. Women of Ciudad Juárez is the group’s second production. Noriega teaches Latin American and Latina/o theatre, and his current research focuses on community-based and activist performance across the Americas. He has directed more than 30 productions in English and Spanish, including performances at theatres and festivals in Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, and Israel. In 2012, he was invited to present his work as the U.S. delegation at the UNESCO/ITI World Festival of Theatre Schools, in Romania, where he also led a master class for festival participants. In the U.S., he has directed plays in Joplin, MO; Lawrence, KS; Ithaca, NY; Wooster, OH; and at the historic Pregones Theater in New York City. In 2013, he received the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. He is also the 2013 recipient of the ATHE/KCACTF Prize for Innovative Teaching.
Ben Pfister is the Stage Manager; Kent Sprague is Lighting Designer; Marisa Adame, Stephanie Castrejon, Janna Haywood, and Summit J. Starr are the actresses in Mujeres de Ciudad Juarez.
