Silueta by Diana Burbano, Tom Shelton and Chris Shelton
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Sarah Tuft:
1 Dec. 2021
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This gorgeous, insightful, achingly truthful play so perfectly captures a world I know all too well - the art world. SILUETA captures its passions, abuses, and cult of celebrity as well as the dynamics between men and women that continue to haunt many industries, especially the arts where insecure men feast on the adulation of young women. A brilliant two-hander in which both characters are fully realized as three-dimensional human beings, this play needs to be produced - now! ”
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Ashland New Plays Festival:
11 Jun. 2021
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This powerful play about the artists Carl Andre, a founder of the Minimalist Art movement, and Ana Mendieta, a Cuban immigrant whose fame in New York art circles begins to eclipse his, examines in retrospect their torrid relationship that led eventually to her fall from the window of their 34th floor Village apartment shortly after they were married. At play4keeps.org, two extraordinary actors, Anthony Heald and Nancy Rodriguez, recorded this dialogue between the aged Andre and the ghost of Mendieta, who has haunted him for decades and now insists they examine together the truth of that fatal evening. ”
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Peter Ruiz:
19 Nov. 2020
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This play has a striking combination of an extremely real relationship and an overtly theatrical ghost device. The way the play interweaves reality and conjecture so seemingly is masterful. Whether or not you know the historical figures in this play, you are moved to fight for Ana and interrogate Carl along with. It feels like a fitting a tribute to well-loved Latinx artistic figure. ”
Character Information
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A Minimalist sculptor. 50 in 1985, now elderly.
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A Cuban American artist. 36 at the time of her death in 1985. Latinx
Development History
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, Playwrights in Process/Cygnet Theatre
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, Great Plains Theatre Conference
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