Brava and La Lengua Teatro en Español present
Doméstica Realidad
Domestic Reality
August 3 - 13, 2023
Thur - Sat @ 8:00pm
Sun @ 6:00pm
PREVIEWS on Thursday, August 03 & Friday, August 04
*In Spanish with English supertitles
Doméstica Realidad is a captivating piece where comedy and social awareness merge into an unforgettable theatrical experience. It’s a collective creation about the unresolved conflict between women and the domestic space.
Three domestic situations explore hierarchical relationships, contradictions, and conflicts in an activity historically relegated to the female universe. A nauseating smell, the source of which is unknown, reveals that something in the house is rotting. Three possible variations of a state of affairs, with no temporal order, no apparent succession. A house, which is maintained as background, gives a general framework to the story, the place that enables these contradictions, dominations and abuses: "What happens indoors, stays indoors", says one of the characters.
These stories come from a documentary work that included interviews with employees and employers, telephone surveys, readings and discussions of research on domestic employment. Doméstica Realidad deals with intimate, generational and political dilemmas that come into play in the ‘domestic’ arena.
Playwrights
Natalia Burgueño, Etelvina Rodríguez, Camila Sanson, Florencia Dansilio & Sofía Espinosa
Ensemble
Dyana Diaz - Carla Gallardo - Deborah Cortez
Music and Lyrics
Patricia Turnes
Director
Virginia Blanco
TICKETS
$25 general admission
$50 La Lengua supporter (priority seats)
$100 La Lengua mecenas (priority seats + 1 free drink)
Pay-what-you-can on Thursday 08/03
ABOUT LA LENGUA
Founded in 2019, La Lengua Teatro en Español/La Lengua Theater is an emerging company that creates spaces for theater in Spanish, sharing its immense diversity and wealth, in order to empower the Spanish-speaking community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previous productions include a live performed reading of Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (2019), two virtual live streamings (Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, 2020, and Beben by Guillermo Calderón, 2020) and two radio plays (Adiós Robinson by Julio Cortázar, 2020, Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig, 2021). In 2022, La Lengua premiered its first commission, Las Azurduy by Florencia Aroldi.
The 2023 season continues in November. They are happy to announce the upcoming release of the second edition of Historias de Descolonización/ Decolonization Stories: a residency to commission playwrights from all the Americas to write short plays, a project started in 2021 in partnership with AlterTheater company. Learn more at www.lalengua.org.