WORLD PREMIERE IN DECEMBER 2010 to La MaMa, NYC!!!

 
They found each other in the lonely, apocalyptic city.
Now they must choose between their bliss and their convictions.
A poetic and poignant post-recession love story set in the near future, 
directed and performed by Karina Casiano and Daniel Irizarry. 
(Photo by Marius Chira. www.zbabam.com) 

DECEMBER 2 - 12, 2010. La MaMa ETC, New York City

The Orphans is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council for the Arts,
celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties.
And by the support of  Puffin Foundation and The Yip Harburg Foundation. 

        

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¿Qué me trajiste?: Cabaret Boricua
       Written, directed, produced and performed by Karina Casiano 
         San Juan, Puerto Rico, May and June 1999 
     Café-Teatro Delirio Habanero, Teatro Nacional, La Habana, Cuba, January 2000 
       Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Argentina, January - May 2001 
                                                                            
     WATCH THE VIDEO! 
                                                              
   

                         A bold play about the issues of identity and sovereignty of the Puerto Rican people, it was
inspired by the cultural and ideological shock Casiano received as a Latin U.S. citizen on her one-year
trip to diverse South American countries in 1998. The play raises the question of the role of Puerto Ricans in
their country's political and social destiny with bittersweet humor. A deceived and jaded prostitute leads the
audience through the travels of a young wide-eyed girl who leaves her country in search of a more ideologically
fulfilling life. A disturbingly practical flight attendant and an enigmatic nightclub employee test the reasons of the
Little Red Riding Hood who fled her land only to find and envious, fed up "third world." The astonishment of
coming face to face with the dilemma of her identity and nationality as a Puerto Rican makes her realize
how fragile dignity can be. (Photo by Jorge Dieppa, postcard design by Matt Egan.)
 

    COLONIA2007o el cabaret de los días terribles

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A musical multimedia play which fictionally predicts the future of Puerto Rican society based
in the prevailing repressive policies enforced in the United States and other countries. An array of
baffling characters sing, dance and invite the audience into the world of Puerto Rico in 2007: a
government-run night club where behavior considered illegal before a fictional uprising in 2001, is
permitted. The purpose is to keep social order through an illusion of freedom. Terrorized citizens
accept and promote these measures as a response to the threat of losing their individual well-being.
The social issues raised by the show are even more pertinent now than in the year 2000 when Casiano
originally wrote the play. Omnipresent surveillance, the police and the military flooding the streets, and
ethnic and ideological profiling are now part of our everyday lives. The show presents, with a heavy
dose of sarcasm and dark humor, how a US-owned nation sloppily subscribes to its version of an
expensive, sophisticated police state. Clip available on our videos page.
(Photos by Eric Borcherding and David Rubio. Postcard design by Matt Egan.)