Stage Notes: Cara Mia opens bilingual world premiere; new seasons from Undermain, MainStage
Cara Mia’s ‘Orígenes/Origins.’ (Courtesy photo) Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information. Cara Mia Theatre collabs with The Laboratorio de la Mascara for Origenes/Origins Cara Mía Theatre’s upcoming world premiere is a new bilingual play that is also a collaboration with Mexico City’s Laboratorio de la Máscara.
Orígenes/Origins is an immigrant story centered on a teenager sent by family to live with her father in the United States. The play will be performed primarily in Spanish with English supertitles.
Orígenes/Origins runs from Saturday-April 30 at the Latino Cultural Center. “Orígenes is a uniquely Mexican and Latin-American lens on immigration yet it seeks to connect to the worldwide experiences of immigration throughout the world,” Executive Artistic Director David Lozano said in a press release. “Like all of our work with Mexico City’s Laboratorio de la Máscara, cultural roots are a means for healing for those who immigrate to the United States.
In Orígenes/Origins, culture is center stage as the pathway towards self-realization.” From Cara Mia: Orígenes/Origins is a highly visual fable that weaves the Venado (deer), La Abuela Tortuga (grandmother turtle) and El Insecto Humano (human insect) around the life of a teenager who retraces her journey of immigration from a Latin-American country to El Norte.
