The Miami Lakes community is invited to attend and enjoy the Main Street Playhouse’s first Spanish production, La Pasión Según Antígona Pérez. There is only one weekend left to catch the performance. The Main Street Playhouse is located at 6766 Main Street.
The play is full of drama and political nuances. The cast has managed to stage the piece in a profile theater setting, reorganizing the conventional proscenium of the theatre and using the seating area as the dungeon of the imprisoned Antigona.
The elevated stage is the palace of the dictator Generalísimo Creón Molina. In Antígona Pérez, the audience sees a totalitarian government that manipulates the lives of its inhabitants and imposes on them a fear that controls their actions inadvertently.
Only Antígona is aware of this fear and has the courage to face it. In the piece, the audience will encounter a chorus of journalists who recount the events of the republic and incite attenders to question how they receive and process information from the media.
The theater has always served as a healthy place for discussion of social problems. Director Isaac Polanco expressed that with this production, and given the current political changes, he is inviting audiences to open up a discussion where fear does not control our lives; a space where the feeling of loyalty, love of Antigona remains alive but not where martyrs are created and freedom and civil rights are questioned.
He feels honored to return to Main Street to direct the theater’s first Spanish production, as the theatre group continues to produce work in line with their own mission of bringing bold, innovative and relevant theater to a multicultural audience.
The cast includes Antígona by Anne Garcia, Aurora by Adela Romero, Creón Molína by Alejandro Milían, Pilar by Salomé Muriel, Monsenor Escudero by Amarú Pereyra, Irene Journalist 5 by Carmen Albernas, Journalist 1 by Camila Rodriguez, Journalist 2 by Rosalyn Tavarez, Journalist 3 by Henri Sosa, and Journalist 4 by Leopoldo Anzola.
Remaining performance dates are December 16 - 18, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. General admission tickets are $20, and may either be purchased at the door 30 minutes prior to showtime, or online at www.mainstreetplayers.com.