theatre - 9mnt https://9mnt.com Publish Your Viral Stories Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:34:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://cdn.9mnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-cropped-9mnt-32x32-1-2-150x150.png theatre - 9mnt https://9mnt.com 32 32 "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" Play Premiere https://9mnt.com/mi-abuela-queen-of-nightmares-play-premiere/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:34:22 +0000 https://9mnt.com/mi-abuela-queen-of-nightmares-play-premiere/ Join us for the premiere of Christine Stoddard’s play “Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares” at the Gene Frankel Theatre from June 15-26 for a total of 10 performances. Maya, a young Salvadoran-American woman, navigates trauma and family mythology through magic and folklore as she comes of age in Phoenix, Arizona. Her story explores mother-daughter relationships, […]

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]]> Join us for the premiere of Christine Stoddard’s play “Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares” at the Gene Frankel Theatre from June 15-26 for a total of 10 performances.

Maya, a young Salvadoran-American woman, navigates trauma and family mythology through magic and folklore as she comes of age in Phoenix, Arizona. Her story explores mother-daughter relationships, mixed race identity, and fantasy as a coping mechanism, while featuring movement and dance.

*Trigger warning: This play references sexual assault.

The Cast:

Maya: Vanessa Vivas (Ariana Jackman, understudy)

Mami: Marian Del Valle

Abuela: Fiamma Piacentini

Father/Sheriff: Jacob M. Baron

Cactus/Jaguar/Owl: Amanda Andrews & Jess Appel

Salvadoran Women: Ariana Jackman & Christine Stoddard

“Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares” won a national playwriting competition held by Table Work Press in 2019 and was published in the book Two Plays: True Believer and Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares (2020). The play is based upon the 2018 Semiperfect Press chapbook of poems by the same name.

Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

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