Divinas Palabras July 26, 2007

Divinas Palabras
Centro Dramático Nacional

North American Premiere

Playwright Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
Adaptation Juan Mayorga
Director Gerardo Vera

Thursday, July 26 at 8:00
Friday, July 27 at 8:00
Saturday, July 28 at 8:00

Rose Theater
Tickets: $20, 30, 40, 50

Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.

Written for forty characters, Divinas Palabras is a breathtaking spectacle that reveals the difficulties of rural life among impoverished peasants whose struggles to survive are only soothed by religion and the hope of redemption after death. Written in 1919 by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, an artistic pioneer of his time and one of Spain’s most politically subversive writers, Divinas Palabras captures moments in time when seemingly insurmountable crises occur and individuals are compelled to respond and choose between the new and the old

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