IATI Theater Presents Fifty Fun Facts Sobre Olivia [mi madre] Written by Nora Coss Directed by Manuel Ortiz Ossandon

What happens when the person you love most needs you, but the words you need to save them don’t fully belong to you? New York, NY — IATI Theater presents Nora Coss’s Fifty fun facts sobre Olivia [mi madre], a moving bilingual memory play exploring caregiving, language, cultural identity, and the complicated ways we come to understand the people we love. Fourteen-year-old Emilio is more comfortable speaking English than Spanish, while his mother, Olivia, wants him to remain connected to his Mexican roots through language. When Olivia becomes seriously ill and Emilio must help care for her in Mexico, that difference takes on new urgency. Suddenly, he must navigate doctors, paperwork, and caregiving in a language he does not fully command. In the process, mother and son begin finding new ways to understand one another, slowly learning to speak the same language, both literally and emotionally.