The Alcyone Festival 2012
In its fifth year, our annual Alcyone Festival celebrates the depth and breadth of women writing for the stage. The Alcyone Festival 2012 featured new works by Mexican women, in English translation.
July 12 through August 12, 2012.
At the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln in Chicago.
Featured Shows:
A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino
"There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love weaves through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. "
by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez
"A dramatic rewriting of the famous case of Freud's 'Dora.'"
Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning
by Mariana Hartasánchez, translation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Tony Adams
"When a magician's hand escapes and seduces a psychiatrist, two fathers return from the dead in a battle over the living."
by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Anneliese Moffitt
"A couple on the skids, a woman having a nervous breakdown, a serial killer on the prowl and a girl holding onto a mewling cat make up the darkly comic, poetically ferocious world of The Tip of the Iceberg."