La Lengua Teatro en Español presents “Paradise” // SF
La Lengua Teatro en Español and Brava Present Paradise
Four perspectives intertwine to cast light on the relationship the United States maintains with Puerto Rico, after more than one century. The tensions in the lives of Julian, Andrea, Tata, and Quiko are a snapshot of what it means to reside on the island today.
A Paradise!… but it depends on who you are and where you are coming from.
Thursday, September 5 – Sunday, September 29, 2024
Fri. – Sat. @ 8:00pm
Sun. @ 6:00pm in Brava Studio Theater.
About the show:
A new bilingual play by Tere Martinez on how colonization processes are still alive and well in our contemporary society.
Performed in Spanish, English, or Spanglish, this production will feature projected supertitles to ensure access and eliminate language barriers.
Paradise uses the tensions between compelling characters on the stage to cast light on the exploitative relationship the United States, after more than one century, maintains with Puerto Rico.
The play aims to draw attention to the unfair political situation of the island. Julian, an American living in Puerto Rico, takes advantage of tax incentives offered by the Puerto Rican government to foreign “investors” who agree to relocate to the island.
Andrea, a local public-school teacher, gives Spanish lessons to Americans to make ends meet, while taking stock of the damage these incentives are doing to her country and the profiteering of outsiders who provide little while benefiting a lot. Tata needs to find a new home in a city plagued by Airbnbs yet clashes with both Andrea and Julian given her own perspective. And Quiko, who has lived all his life between the island and the mainland, depicts the punishing disparities suffered by the “American citizen” residents of the United States territory.
