Octavio Solis: Scene with Cranes
Octavio Solis: Scene with Cranes
Octavio Solis: Scene with Cranes
“Octavio Solis fearlessly — exuberantly — plunges theater audiences into the sacred and profane.” —NPR
“Fiction, mythology, gritty realism, and autobiography have long lived side by side in Solis’s more than two dozen theatrical and prose works. His is a prolific, distinctively adventurous body of work that mingles classical Western lit with modern concerns, Latinx mythology, satire, autobiography, surrealism, and the quotidian realities of Chicano working-class life.” —American Theatre
“...fresh, penetrating, often blissful…” —The New York Times
World Premiere
Copresented with CalArts Center for New Performance
Written by Octavio Solis
Directed by Chi-wang Yang
Octavio Solis—known for plays of satire, mythology, and steely realism—is considered one of the most prominent Latino playwrights in America. In this world premiere production, a tight-knit East L.A. family is left shattered in the wake of their youngest son's mysterious death. Devastated, the mother searches for the truth by retracing her son's final steps. In Solis' signature blend of classic and contemporary, he parallels Jean Sibelius' musical masterwork in a play of the same name. Exquisitely visceral, Chi-wang Yang's direction of Scene with Cranes navigates the many avenues of loss, leaving us stranded in a meditation on grief.
Scene with Cranes is a project of Duende Calarts, an initiative of the CalArts Center for New Performance dedicated to developing and producing innovative work emerging from Latinx and Latin American communities and sources. Established in 2009 by Marissa Chibás, Duende CalArts brings prominent and emerging Latinx and Latin American artists from the performance community to develop adventurous projects at CNP. It aims to expand aesthetic boundaries and performance discourse, collaborating with national and international Latinx artists and advancing multilingual works.
Scene with Cranes is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Produced by CalArts Center for New Performance.
Associated Images:
| Date/Time | G | M/ST | CA |
|---|---|---|---|
| THU 9/29 8:30 pm | $25 | $20 | $13 |
| FRI 9/30 8:30 pm | $25 | $20 | $13 |
| SAT 10/1 8:30 pm | $25 | $20 | $13 |
| SAT 10/1 VIRTUAL 8:30 pm | $15 | $12 | $8 |
Approx. 100 minutes
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G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
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