| Red Bull Theater announces cast for free livestream of a new translation of Sor Juana’s LOVE IS THE GREATER LABYRINTH. Premieres tonight at 7:30 PM | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:52 am EDT 09/27/21 | |
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| Red Bull Theater Announces The Complete Cast for A Brand New English-Language Translation of Sor Juana's Amor es más laberinto - LOVE IS THE GREATER LABYRINTH Directed by Melia Bensussen Featuring Oge Agulué, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Cecil Baldwin, Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Carson Elrod, Ryan Garbayo, Sam Lilja, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Ismenia Mendes, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Tony Roach, Timothy D. Stickney, and Chauncy Thomas Free Livestream Premiere Tonight, Monday September 27th | 7:30 PM EDT Part of A Four-Part Series Presented in Collaboration with Repertorio Español and Diversifying The Classics | UCLA: HISPANIC GOLDEN AGE CLASSICS | SOR JUANA RED BULL THEATER (Jesse Berger, Founder and Artistic Director | Jim Bredeson, Managing Director) today announced the cast for the New York premiere of a brand new English-language translation of Sor Juana's play Amor es más laberinto - Love is the Greater Labyrinth: Oge Agulué, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Cecil Baldwin, Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Carson Elrod, Ryan Garbayo, Sam Lilja, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Ismenia Mendes, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Tony Roach, Timothy D. Stickney, and Chauncy Thomas, directed by Melia Bensussen. This event, presented in English, with Spanish subtitles, will premiere tonight, Monday September 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. It is the centerpiece of Hispanic Golden Age Classics | Sor Juana, a four-part series of online events focusing on Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, the playwright, poet, and nun who was writing in Mexico in the latter half of the 17th Century. The recording of the event will be available until 7PM EDT on Friday October 1st. The Hispanic Golden Age offers one of the most vibrant theatrical repertoires ever produced. At the same time that England saw the flourishing of Shakespeare on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and in the decades that followed, Spanish-speaking playwrights including Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Ana Caro, and Calderón de la Barca flourished on the continent and in the New World. Many of the works created during this time have still not been translated into English. Red Bull Theater is committed to expanding our repertoire by seeking out and sharing lesser-known texts that stand the test of time. Love is the Greater Labyrinth (Amor es más laberinto) by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - one of the Hispanic Golden Age's most accomplished female playwrights - is just such a play. Love is the Greater Labyrinth (Amor es más laberinto) is a madcap take on Greek mythology by famous Mexican author Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, now translated into English for the first time. A swashbuckling adventure, romantic farce, and morality tale all rolled into one, the play follows Teseo as he goes to meet his fate in the jaws of the monstrous Minotaur. Little does he know that his greatest test will come when he escapes one labyrinth and heads straight into the even more disorienting complications of love. Princesses Fedra and Ariadna pull him in two different directions-which path will he choose? In a love triangle that somehow keeps adding sides, love gets all the blinder with masked balls and secret nighttime trysts. Meanwhile, mad King Minos's insatiable desire for revenge threatens to turn this into a tragedy after all. Sor Juana explores the epic consequences of emotion run amok through increasingly knotty entanglements and witty metatheatrical play, as the heroes of myth find themselves helpless against the power of Cupid. The Diversifying the Classics | UCLA working group responsible for the translation includes Marta Albalá Pelegrín, Paul Fitzgibbon Cella, Barbara Fuchs, Sarah Grunnah, Richard Huddleson, Rafael Jaime, Saraí Jaramillo, Rachel Kaufman, Robin Kello, Laura Muñoz, Javier Patiño Loira, Amanda Riggle, Rhonda Sharrah, Cheché Silveyra, Aina Soley, Samantha Solis, and Elizabeth Warren. This series is supported by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain. ABOUT UP COMING EVENTS ONLINE READING | Love Is The Greater Labyrinth by Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz Livestream Premiere: Monday, September 27th | 7:30 PM EDT Sor Juana's play presented in English, with Spanish subtitles Directed by Melia Bensussen A new English-language translation by Diversifying the Classics | UCLA Featuring Oge Agulué, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Cecil Baldwin, Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Carson Elrod, Ryan Garbayo, Sam Lilja, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Ismenia Mendes, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Tony Roach, Timothy D. Stickney, and Chauncy Thomas This benefit reading is "Pay What You Can." All of Red Bull Theater's current online programs are FREE. If you're able, please consider making a donation with your registration to support RBT's online activity and return to in-person programming. Presented in English with Spanish subtitles available. ONLINE DISCUSSION | Love Is The Greater Labyrinth / Amor Es Más Laberinto Livestream/Webinar: Thursday September 30th | 7:30 PM EDT The recording will be available until 7PM EDT Friday October 1st. An interactive discussion of Sor Juana's Love is the Greater Labyrinth (Amor es más laberinto) and its history and themes with directors Melia Bensussen and Leyma López; scholars Barbara Fuchs, Rhonda Sharrah, and Aina Soley; and members of the companies. The conversation will be held in both English and Spanish. Red Bull Theater wishes to express its gratitude to the Performers' Unions: ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, and SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program. All the events are free, but donations are suggested and appreciated. ABOUT SOR JUANA Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz (ca.1650-1695) was a prolific Mexican writer and polymath, hailed in her own lifetime as "the Tenth Muse." Born in what was then the Viceroyalty of New Spain as the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish father and a criolla mother (Mexican-born, but of Spanish descent), Sor Juana showed an early love of learning, mastering at a young age Latin, Greek, and Nahuatl, a local indigenous language. She entered a convent in order to continue her intellectual pursuits free from the constraints of marriage, and soon gained renown as an author. Writing for the Viceroy's court, she designed entertainments for religious festivals and state events. Her highly regarded (and often translated) lyric poetry includes amorous verses depicting lesbian desire. She also wrote a powerful argument for women's right to think and write, the "Letter to Sor Filotea." Sor Juana's oeuvre includes three comedias-a form of secular drama that was popular throughout the seventeenth-century Hispanic world. Love is the Greater Labyrinth (Amor es más laberinto) is her last, after La segunda Celestina (1675) and Los empeños de una casa (1683). Like the other two, Love is the Greater Labyrinth was first performed as part of a court festival, and like La segunda Celestina, it was a collaboration with another playwright. Sor Juana's co-author, Juan de Guevara, was a priest, author, and sometimes her competition in local poetry contests. Although little is known about Guevara today, some of his poetry survives, along with contemporary reports of his reputation as a talented writer. Shortly after Love is the Greater Labyrinth was written, some church and state authorities became threatened by Sor Juana's outspoken critiques of the misogynistic culture that limited opportunities for women in her time. They forced her to give up writing before she died during a plague outbreak in 1695. Yet her substantial body of work spread her fame far and wide, from multiple collected editions published in Spain during her lifetime and shortly after, to performances as far away as the Philippines (Love is the Greater Labyrinth in 1708). After a period of critical neglect and dismissal, scholars in the twentieth century took interest in her work from feminist, LGBTQ+, and Latin American perspectives. Today, her plays, poems, and fiery treatises still bring us Sor Juana's singular voice, despite the heteropatriarchal structures which tried, but failed, to silence her. ABOUT DIVERSIFYING THE CLASSICS Diversifying the Classics was founded in 2014 to foster awareness and appreciation of Hispanic classical theater in the US. Under the direction of UCLA Professor Barbara Fuchs, scholars, students, and artists work together to promote an expanded vision of the classics that reflects today's diverse audiences. The project has multiple initiatives that support this mission through new translations, adaptations, education, and performance, including the biennial LA Escena theater festival. ABOUT REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL Founded in 1968, Repertorio Español has presented an unparalleled body of theater that promotes and divulges the rich heritage of Hispanic and Latinx theater. Spanish masters like Calderón, Lope de Vega, and García Lorca, renowned playwrights from Latin America and the growing body of American writers who capture the Latino experience in the U.S.-from NYC to Portland, LA, NYC, Washington DC, Texas, Denver, and Chicago-- are all at home in Repertorio Español's programming. Also, the company has presented acclaimed translations of plays by Edward Albee, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Gian Carlo Menotti, Eduardo De Filippo, and Noel Coward. The Company presents a rotating repertory of 13 different plays, musicals, and dance concerts with over 300 performances every year. Its productions are seen by over 50,000 people annually at its home, the historic Gramercy Arts Theatre, and on tour. Every year, approximately 20,000 students are introduced to the heritage of Spanish language theatre through its education program, ¡DIGNIDAD! ABOUT RED BULL THEATER Red Bull Theater is committed to continuing connection with artists and audiences online and in person as we move through this transitional period in the pandemic. Red Bull's online readings offer the unique opportunity to hear rarely-produced classic plays, and brand new plays in conversation with the classics, performed by the finest actors in New York. All of Red Bull Theater's fall offerings are FREE, but advance reservations are recommended. Tax-deductible donations are encouraged to support Red Bull and invest in the vitality of classical theater for a contemporary audience. Red Bull Theater, hailed as "the city's gutsiest classical theater" by Time Out New York, brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences, uniting a respect for tradition with a modern sensibility. Named for the rowdy Jacobean playhouse that illegally performed plays in England during the years of Puritan rule, Red Bull Theater is New York City's home for dynamic performances of great plays that stand the test of time. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as its cornerstone, the company also produces new works that are in conversation with the classics. A home for artists, scholars and students, Red Bull Theater delights and engages the intellect and imagination of audiences, and strives to make its work accessible, diverse, and welcoming to all. Red Bull Theater believes in the power of great classic stories and plays of heightened language to deepen our understanding of the human condition, in the special ability of live theater to create unique, collective experiences, and the timeless capacity of classical theater to illuminate the events of our times. Variety agreed, hailing Red Bull's work as: "Proof that classical theater can still be surprising after hundreds of years." Since its debut in 2003 with a production of Shakespeare's Pericles starring Daniel Breaker, Red Bull Theater has served adventurous theatergoers with Off-Broadway productions, Revelation Readings, and the annual Short New Play Festival. The company also offers outreach programs including Shakespeare in Schools bringing professional actors and teaching artists into public school classrooms; Bull Sessions, free post-play discussions with top scholars; and Master Classes in classical acting led by veteran theater professionals. Red Bull Theater strives to be a home for all artists and theatergoers. We value and practice inclusiveness, equity and diversity in all of our activities, and we are committed to antiracist action. All of us at Red Bull Theater are committed to actively working to help realize a more perfect union-a racially and socially just America. "The classics-shaking Red Bull Theater," as Time Out NY has called it, has presented 20 Off-Broadway productions and nearly 200 Revelation Readings of rarely seen classics, serving a community of more than 5,000 artists and providing quality artistic programming to an audience of over 65,000. The company's unique programming has received ongoing critical acclaim, and has been recognized with Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, Callaway, Off Broadway Alliance, and OBIE nominations and Awards. For more information about the Hispanic Golden Age Classics, or any of Red Bull Theater's programs, visit www.redbulltheater.com. |
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