set in the year 2047, a radical science fiction story about revolutionary love, struggle and the people’s liberation movement that made possible the abolition of the industrial prison system.
dates:
December 8 – 10, 2023
venue:
Victoria Espinosa Theater (PR-25, Santurce, San Juan, San Juan 00906, PR)
performance schedule:
Friday, December 8, 2023- 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023- 8:00 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023- 4:00 PM Matinee* & 8:00 PM
*Sign language interpreters will be available at the December 10 matinee performance.
papel machete
Papel Machete is a radical workers’ street theater and puppetry collective that produces and performs original work in Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Members are puppeteers, writers, musicians, visual artists, and organizers who have worked together since 2006. papelmachete.com
agitarte
AgitArte is an organization of working-class artists and cultural organizers who work at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ideology. Through a praxis of cultural solidarity, creative process and popular education, we initiate and facilitate arts and cultural projects with grassroots communities that contest U.S. cultural hegemony and propose alternatives to existing systems of oppression. We do this in our creative work by centering the experiences of oppressed people in resistance through interdisciplinary storytelling/media and in our mutual solidarity through trainings, workshops, and running a physical space for educational programming in Santurce, Puerto Rico. For more information, visit agitarte.org
victoria espinosa theater
This performance art theater is named after Victoria Espinosa, a Puerto Rican actress, director, playwright, professor, and theater producer, a key figure in twentieth-century performance theater. Her extraordinary career included directing over 120 plays, among them “Los soles truncos” at the First Puerto Rican Theater Festival in 1958 with renowned Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués, and again at the 1965 inauguration of the Calatrava Theatre in Salamanca, Spain. Espinosa also founded the College of Theater Actors (now the Puerto Rico Actors’ Association) and spearheaded the creation of a special fund for the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture’s Theater Division that is intended specifically for the development of theater in Puerto Rico. Teatro Victoria Espinosa presents high-quality plays fused with some cultural and historic Puerto Rican inspirations.
artists
jorge ‘cano cangrejo’ dÍaz ortiz
Director, Puppeteer
sugeily rodrÍguez lebrÓn
Producer, Assistant Director, Puppeteer, Mask Performer
deborah hunt
Puppet & Mask Director, Puppeteer, Mask Performer
jose ‘primo’ hernÁndez dÍaz
Visual Artist, Puppeteer, Mask Performer
dey hernÁndez vÁzquez
Puppeteer, Mask Performer
carlos ‘gandul’ torres lÓpez
Puppeteer, Mask Performer
yussef soto villarini
Puppeteer, Mask Performer
francisco iglesias
Puppeteer, Mask Performer
marian annette rodrÍguez morales
Set & Costume Designer, Puppeteer, Mask Performer
tina orlandini
Puppeteer, Mask Performer
agustÍn muÑoz rÍos
Music, Mask Performer
anÍbal ‘el s.’ vidal quintero
Music
lizbeth romÁn
Mask Performer, Music
juan pablo ‘juanpi’ vizcaÍno
Vejigante Mask Construction
cristina sesto
Production Coordinator
joe therrien
Video Director & Editor
osvaldo budet
Video Editor
estefanÍa rivera cortÉs
Visual Artist
credits
written by papel machete
puppeteers and mask performers
Adriana Rocío Sálamo Fuentes
Agustín Muñoz Ríos
Anari Méndez Álvarez
Brenda Plumey
Carlos José ‘Gandul’ Torres
Deborah Hunt
Dey Hernández Vázquez
Francisco Iglesias
Ímac Morales
Irick Samuel Cruz Ortiz
Jorge ‘Cano Cangrejo’ Díaz Ortiz
José ‘Primo’ Hernández
Marian Annette Rodríguez Morales
Rosa Janer Aponte
Sugeily Rodríguez Lebrón
Tina Orlandini
Yamillex Montañez Lugo
Yussef Soto Villarini
live music
Agustín Muñoz Ríos
Aníbal “El S.” Vidal Quintero
Lizbeth Román
voice of prisoner 35744
Rob Thelusma
voice of prologue
Mumia Abu-Jamal
poem in security cam video
Leonard Peltier
text at the end
Pitt Panther
director
Jorge ‘Cano Cangrejo’ Díaz Ortiz
producer
Sugeily Rodríguez Lebrón
assistant directors
Deborah Hunt
Sugeily Rodríguez Lebrón
puppet and mask designer/director
Deborah Hunt
vejigante mask construction
Juan Pablo ‘Juanpi’ Vizcaíno
set and costume designer
Marian Annette Rodríguez Morales
stage manager
Mariana Carbonell
production coordinator
Cristina Sesto
production assistant
Anamarys Jiménez Rivera
sound and light technician
Wendel Agosto
sign language interpreters
Michelle M. Quiñones González
Yariel A. Hernández López
video direction and stop motion animation
Deborah Hunt
Joe Therrien
Jorge ‘Cano Cangrejo’ Díaz Ortiz
camera
Joe Therrien
Jorge ‘Cano Cangrejo’ Díaz Ortiz
Juan Carlos Dávila
Lidy Paoli
Osvaldo Budet
jazz franklin
video editing
Aníbal “eL S.” Vidal Quintero
Joe Therrien
Osvaldo Budet
illustrators / visual Artists
Estefanía Rivera Cortés
Jose ‘Primo’ Hernández
Marian Annette Rodríguez Morales
Pitt Panther
Sugeily Rodríguez Lebrón
set design and construction
Deborah Hunt
Jorge ‘Cano Cangrejo’ Díaz Ortiz
José ‘Primo’ Hernández
Kathya Torres
Marian Annette Rodríguez Morales
Sugeily Rodríguez Lebrón
shadows and miniatures design and construction
Deborah Hunt
Dey Hernández
Joe Therrien
Kathya Torres
Sugeily Rodriguez Lebrón
Tina Orlandini
puppet, mask & pop up design and construction
Carlos José ‘Gandul’ Torres
Deborah Hunt
Dey Hernández Vázquez
Jorge ‘Cano Cangrejo’ Díaz Ortiz
Sugeily Rodríguez Lebrón
Tina Orlandini
documentation
Osvaldo Budet
Tina Orlandini
special thanks
A Blade of Grass, Albert Woodfox, Creative Capital, Centro de Economía Creativa, Guie Beeu Guerrero Hunt, José A. Díaz Aparicio, Juan Esteban Rodríguez Lebrón, Juan Ruiz, Kendra Davis, Krystal Clark, Nelmari Estrella Escudero, Noel Hanrahan, MAP Fund, Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Cara Mía Theater