Our Dad Is in Atlantis
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 8, 2008
Closed Apr 20, 2008
Opened Apr 8, 2008
Closed Apr 20, 2008
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Running Time:
1hr. 15min.
1hr. 15min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Working Theater in a co-production with Queens Theatre in the Park presents the Off-Broadway premiere of Our Dad Is in Atlantis,
a new play by Mexican playwright Javier Malpica
translated by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas. Debbie Saivetz directs.
Our Dad Is in Atlantis concerns two Mexican brothers, ages 8 and 11, who are left with their grandmother in a rural village while their father goes to the United States to look for work. Motherless, missing their father, and left in the care of relatives they scarcely know, the boys rely on one another for emotional support they are unequipped to provide, and for physical support in a naive and desperate attempt to reach their father in "Atlantis."
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Javier Malpica's
Our Dad Is in Atlantis, now playing at Theatres at 45 Bleecker, is undeniably timely. Unfortunately, the play, which explores how and why two pre-teen Mexican boys attempt to sneak over the border into the United States, suffers from a certain simplicity in its storytelling. As a result, what could have been a pungent and emotional two-hander seems merely like a charming after-school special presented onstage.
During the 10 vignette-like scenes that make up the play -- staged too straightforwardly by director Debbie Saivetz -- we follow Little Brother (Sergio Ferriera) and Big Brother (Steven D. Garcia) from the day that their father, who's leaving Mexico to find work in A[...]