About This Show
Alameda Theatre Company, Canada’s premiere professional Latin American theatre company, giving opportunity to Latin Canadian theatre artists and playwrights and building audiences for their work, is challenging Latino stereotypes and creating a theatre that is inclusive of the Latin Canadian voice. The 2008 De Colores Festival, "of many colours", will expose Canadian audiences to the new Latin Canadian theatrical works hitting our stages.
Festival schedule:
May 25, 2008, 7pm
SOPHIE & LEO by Jefferson Guzman
Siblings Sophie & Leo must find closure after the death of their estranged father. A road trip to bury their father in Halifax becomes an extraordinary life changing moment of truth. Directed and Dramaturged by Guillermo Verdecchia, Additional Dramaturgy by Stephen Colella
May 26, 2008, 7pm
LIZARDBOY by Victor Gomez
Nine year old Hector Fernando has two options: to fight or to hide. Which one will he choose? Directed by Marilo Nunez, Dramaturgy by Stephen Colella
May 26, 2008, 8:30pm
BLUE BOX by Carmen Aguirre (an excerpt)*
A play examining female sexuality and the political ramifications of power between the sexes. Directed and Dramaturged by Nightswimming’s Brian Quirt in association with Canada’s award-winning dramaturgical company Nightswimming
