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Chile Con Carne
An uncompromising look at a Chilean refugee family seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl, Manuelita.
Carnival Medea
The play presents Medea, a Grenadian obeah woman who seeks to punish her Tobagonian husband, Jason, for his betrayal of her. She has done everything in her considerable power to smooth his way, turning against her father and even killing her brother. For this she has been exiled from her homeland and estranged from her family. The tabanca (painful feeling of unrequited love, especially towards an ex) for this loss is as strong in its own way as her rage over Jason’s abandonment of her and their sons to marry a “red woman”, the “bourgeois” daughter of Trinidad’s Governor Creon. To punish the errant man, Medea plots to have the horner woman murdered. To the horror of the chorus and her children’s nanny, Medea also plots to murder her own sons.
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2017, Little Carib Theatre and Lordstreet Theatre Company, Trinidad and Tobago
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Based on the ancient Greek play "Medea" by Euripides
Based on the ancient Greek play "Medea" by Euripides
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Anywhere but Here
The play follows a family on a journey back towards Chile from Canada on the I-5 freeway in Washington state in 1979, and on the U.S./Mexico border in 1979, 1973, 1996, and 2020. Using magic realism, these eras occur simultaneously. They drive in a convertible along the desert border between the US and Mexico, each with different emotions about the North they are leaving and the South they are approaching, reversing their refugee flight, refusing the state of exile. The father and his two young daughters encounter an increasingly fantastic range of characters. They are encircled by past, present and future, in a collective vision that takes them, and the audience, into the compelling experiences of people crossing and guarding the border. Threaded through the external journey is the internal search for home in an unstable world, confronting the costs of exile and the true nature of home.