Saving Myself

by Maria I. Arreola

[ONE-ACT] The Saint Barbara's Young Women’s Retreat is off to a rough start. Fighting between participants, an absentee retreat leader, spooky coincidences, and finicky technology have all contributed to making this the “worst” (or perhaps the best) retreat ever?

[ONE-ACT] The Saint Barbara's Young Women’s Retreat is off to a rough start. Fighting between participants, an absentee retreat leader, spooky coincidences, and finicky technology have all contributed to making this the “worst” (or perhaps the best) retreat ever?

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Saving Myself

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  • Shaun Leisher: Saving Myself

    A play full of fabulous roles for Latinx actors. This play went places I really didn't expect but I was glad to be on the ride. Really important conversations happening about sexuality and religion.

    A play full of fabulous roles for Latinx actors. This play went places I really didn't expect but I was glad to be on the ride. Really important conversations happening about sexuality and religion.

  • Kendra Augustin: Saving Myself

    Kinda want an act two! But appreciate that because Asexuality as an identity has become more visible that there can be conversations about the many ways people are sexless with more compassion. And in that space conversations about sexuality, religion, and reclaiming language. Arreola gives us clues as to Rosa and Lucy's relationship. Actually, it's quite clear without being in your face. Lucy is, in the present day, like a ghost I was dying to meet. I was also interested in the questioning of what is abstinence exactly --The whole basis of a group rooted in something grey!

    Kinda want an act two! But appreciate that because Asexuality as an identity has become more visible that there can be conversations about the many ways people are sexless with more compassion. And in that space conversations about sexuality, religion, and reclaiming language. Arreola gives us clues as to Rosa and Lucy's relationship. Actually, it's quite clear without being in your face. Lucy is, in the present day, like a ghost I was dying to meet. I was also interested in the questioning of what is abstinence exactly --The whole basis of a group rooted in something grey!

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Year 2023
  • Type Reading, Organization Imaginarium Theatre, Year 2022