PhotosGo Inside Opening Night of World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language
Samora la Perdida, Zabryna Guevara, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Yani Marin, and Marilyn Torres star for Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre.
By
Andrew Gans, Michael Wiltbank
November 09, 2022
Signature Theatre's world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language,
the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s stage adaptation of her
eponymous memoir, officially opened November 6 following previews that began October 18 in the Pershing Square
Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. Read reviews here.
Hudes' second play in her Premiere
Residency, following the 2016 world premiere of Daphne’s Dive, continues Off-Broadway through November 27. The playwright also directs.
The cast includes Zabryna Guevara (Water by the Spoonful, Emergence), Yani Marin (Jack Ryan, Empire), Samora la Perdida (Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Jack Goes Boating), and Marilyn Torres (Water by The Spoonful, Daredevil).
Go inside opening night below:
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Photos: Inside Opening Night of Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language
The production collides monologue,
literary reading, music, and movement in its depiction of an author
growing up in el barrio in Philadelphia during the '90s, in a Puerto
Rican family held together by women.
The production also has choreography by Ebony Williams, music
supervision by Alex Lacamoire, music by Ariacne Trujillo Duran, scenic
design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting
design by Jen Schriever, and sound design by Leah Gelpe. The cultural
specialist is Ann James with Kaitlin Leigh Marsh as production stage
manager, Julia Perez as assistant stage manager, and Rudi Goblen as
assoociate director with casting by Caparelliotis Casting's Dave
Caparelliotis and Joe Gery.
Each
scene represented in the play focuses, in multifarious ways, on women’s
bodies as sites and origins of meaning, expression, and exchange.
Set in a 1947 Provincetown beach house, the play unfolds over one sultry night as Tennessee Williams and a young Marlon Brando craft A Streetcar Named Desire together.