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Final Reading: TUESDAY!

In Person: Partnership with Repertorio Español

Isidora Aguirre's Las Pascualas 

🎉WHO: You!

📖WHAT: Live, open cold reading of Las Pascualas💥WHEN: TUESDAY, Jan 24, 7pm🗽WHERE: Repertorio Español, 138 E 27th St, NYC

If you’re looking for an ethereal folk story about the perils of love and loneliness…Legend has it that long ago, three lonely women lived in harmony alongside a lake – until their lives were altered forever by a mysterious stranger with whom they each fell in love. Driven to extremes by forbidden love and the gendered constraints of their world, the women struggle with their new worldviews and each other, leading this tightly wound story to its haunting climax. Aguirre’s elegiac masterpiece is grounded by its portrait of the realities of female loneliness in a patriarchal society, making it as raw and intimate as it is otherworldly.

Featuring: Belange Rodriguez, Erick Gonzalez, and Jenyvette Vega 

ROLES FOR LAS PASCUALAS:

Elvira – Elder sister, married,  responsible for keeping the struggling farm afloat. Often stressed; she has little for herself.Adelaide - Elvira's sister, mute from an accident years earlier. Timid, and feels everything deeply. Knitting and guitar are her emotional outlets.Manuca - Serves the family, practically raised Marcela. Motherly, religious, and uninterested in gossip.Gumercinda - Serves the family, kind, loves gossip and tales.

Marcela – Elvira's teen daughter, innocent, romantic, with volatile whims and emotions. Desperate to learn and see more of the world.Daniel – Mysterious & enigmatic, yet certain in his own presence. Smoothly seduces Elvira and Adelaide, yet leaves them behind. Carmela - Serves the family, young, excited, learning of the gossip and stories. Often the one starting chatter.Antonio - Property manager. Gentle, trusted. Feels the struggles of the farm as if they were his own. 

 Questions? Email Emily or Shannon. We can't wait to raise a glass and dive into these texts with our community! 

Expand the Canon is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program), and the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).