November 13, 2005 right after the 2 P.M. performance. Free to those holding tickets.  Sponsored by the Metropolis Coffee Company. There will be a discussion on poetry and translation.

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Doña Rosita, Federico García Lorca’s little-known ‘poem of 1900 Granada,’ weaves a whimsical elegy to lost love and fleeting time. Rosita weathers a long engagement in the house of her flower-obsessed uncle, lace-obsessed aunt, and meddling housekeeper. As time passes, a stream of comic visitors reflects the technological advances of the early twentieth-century, as well as the stagnant cultural attitudes that trap women in an unchanging society. This rarely-performed play uses poetry to evoke a moment in time in a lost Granada.

 

       Previews: Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22, at 8:00 p.m.
                                Press Opening: Sunday, October 23

       Performances continue through November 20:

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

at Athenaeum Theatre (Studio 2), 2936 N. Southport

Paid parking at the St. Alphonsus School lot; some street parking also available.

Tickets ($15; $12 for seniors, students and groups)

Tickets are available at Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at 312-902-1500, on the web at ticketmaster.com or at the Athenaeum Theatre box office Monday-Friday 3-7pm. Call 773-935-6860 for information and same day sales hours.

Federico García Lorca was a highly influential and respected poet and essayist in his short life. Much of his work captures his love-hate relationship with his birthplace, the city of Granada in southern Spain. Lorca celebrated the rich folk traditions of Granada’s art, but deplored its growing pettiness and conservatism. He revolutionized poetry in Spanish with modern innovations, evoking raw emotions yet controlling them with symbolism and form.

Caridad Svich is a playwright-songwriter-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish-Argentine-Croatian descent. Her plays have been seen across the US and abroad at venues as diverse as 7 Stages, The Women’s Project, Cincinnati Playhouse, Salvage Vanguard, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Key works include Iphigenia…a rave fable, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues, Fugitive Pieces, Twelve Ophelias, Any Place But Here, and the multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations. Awards include a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, and a TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant. She is editor of Trans-global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries (Manchester University Press), a book of conversations on media, language, culture and performance, and Divine Fire: Eight Plays Inspired by the Greeks (Watson-Guptill Books). She is co-editor of Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith & Kraus), Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/o Theatre & Performance (TCG), and Theatre in Crisis? (Manchester University Press). Some of her translations are collected in Federico Garcia Lorca: Impossible Theater (Smith & Kraus). She is resident playwright of New Dramatists, contributing editor of TheatreForum, and is on the editorial committee of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK). She holds an MFA from UCSD, and has been selected for inclusion in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History. Her entire catalogue is available from www.alexanderstreetpress.com; her website is www.caridadsvich.com

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