Evelyn Brown - A Diary at La MaMa

06/02/2023

Hollywood Soapbox interviews dramaturg Gwendolyn Alker about her work on a lost play by María Irene Fornés. Check it out.

05/30/2023

05/16/2023

“Evelyn Brown (A Diary)” by María Irene Fornés opens this week on Friday, May 19 in The Downstairs! https://www.lamama.org/shows/evelyn-brown-a-diary-2023

Evelyn Brown - A Diary at La MaMa is an intimate meditation on women’s domestic labor for two performers. The only play Fornés took entirely from a found object, Evelyn Brown tells the story of a household servant who lived and labored in rural New Hampshire in the early 1900s. Using the short entries as inspiration, Fornés shaped the diary into a piece of dance-theatre that explores the physical cost of women’s domestic labor and the surprising possibilities for mental and spiritual escape.

Conceived and originally directed by María Irene Fornés
Directed by Alice Reagan
Cast: Ellen Lauren and Violeta Picayo
Dramaturgy by Gwendolyn Alker
Scenic designer: Donald Eastman
Costume designer: Gabriel Berry

📷: Photo by Sylvia Plachy

03/15/2023

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03/04/2023

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