by Nilo Cruz (Midwest Premiere)
Directed by Cecilie Keenan
Featuring: Executive Director Ivan Vega and Artistic Director Madrid St. Angelo
October 14 – November 19, 2011
(Thursday-Saturday at 8pm. No Sunday shows.)
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Nilo Cruz’s ‘Beauty of the Father’ follows a young American woman who travels to Andalusia, Spain, to meet her estranged father. While there, she becomes romantically involved with her father’s Moroccan companion. The lover’s triangle provides the setting for an exploration of the conflict between love and sacrifice.
Vega and St. Angelo recently worked together in UTC’s Sold Out production of Reinaldo Povod’s, Cuba and His Teddy Bear and in Vitalist Theatre’s U.S. Premiere adaptation of Calderon de la Barca’s, Life is a Dream by Helen Edmunson’s directed by Liz Carlton Metz.
General Admission
$20
Location
Wicker Park Arts Center at Paul’s Community Church
2215 W. North Avenue/Levitt (map)
(3 blocks East of Western and 3 blocks West of Damen/Milwaukee)
Free street parking available. The theatre is 3 blocks from the Damen Blue Line stop.
Photo by Anthony Aicardi
