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LA CELESTINA: AN ILLUMINATED LECTURE
AT THE LA ESCENA FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 19
Our recent Illuminated Lecture with Professor Barbara Fuchs will get a reprise at the LA Escena Festival! The festival celebrates Hispanic classical theater and features a variety of performances and adaptations.
La Celestina can be seen as a mix of manifesto and cautionary tale, bawdy story and philosophical meditation. The presentation – which combines lecture, performance, and music – explores the questions: What do we owe each other, especially across lines of class or gender? How do we make room for ourselves when society has already decided on our place? How do we find meaning in the world?
WHERE: UCLA Macgowan Hall, Little Theater
WHEN: Saturday, September 19, 7 PM
COST: Tickets are free, but reservations are required.
AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE
Know a Theatre
"I think that the combination of intellectual, research-based playmaking with highly stylized and precise movement is, while certainly not unheard of, not where most companies live."
– Aaron Henne
Learn more about theatre dybbuk – the company's history, influences, work, and more – in this interview with our artistic director, Aaron Henne, from December 10 in American Theatre magazine!
photo by Taso Papadakis
Dracula (Annotated)
currently touring
The year is 1897. The British Empire is in the midst of its imperialist expansion. Major technological advances are occurring, with the first wireless communication being sent across open sea. The women’s suffrage movement is growing and the “new woman” is emerging. Eastern European Jewish immigrants are making their way to England in large numbers. And Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is published; this story of a Transylvanian vampire who invades England captures the popular imagination for generations to come.
In Dracula (Annotated), theatre dybbuk excavates Bram Stoker’s famous tale, using a unique blend of historical investigation and heightened theatricality to weave together the gothic characters and plot of Dracula with references to societal forces at play in Victorian England that are still timely today.
photo by Taso Papadakis
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