MACHU PICCHU PLAY

by Tyler Rocío Ecoña

(FULL LENGTH - 90 MIN) In a future where climate change has sunk the coasts and blood rains from the sky, a tour group climbs Machu Picchu, Perú despite an ongoing land dispute. Centuries earlier, on the same mountain, a third-gender oracle predicts the collapse of the Inca Empire and life as they know it. No one knows about the creature stalking the highlands in the shape of one 1924 Republican Senator of...

(FULL LENGTH - 90 MIN) In a future where climate change has sunk the coasts and blood rains from the sky, a tour group climbs Machu Picchu, Perú despite an ongoing land dispute. Centuries earlier, on the same mountain, a third-gender oracle predicts the collapse of the Inca Empire and life as they know it. No one knows about the creature stalking the highlands in the shape of one 1924 Republican Senator of Connecticut, but they're about to find out.

A speculative, surreal folk horror investigating the United States' role in the erasure of Indigenous trans history, and the ways we've survived what others call "apocalypse".

read more
  • Inquire About Rights
  • Recommend
  • Download
  • Save to Library

MACHU PICCHU PLAY

Recommended by

  • Zach Barr: MACHU PICCHU PLAY by Tyler Rocío Ecoña
    “

    I'm in awe of the breadth of this play, how enormous it allows its story and themes to grow, and how unapologetic its trans characters are given space to be. A play about the cyclical nature of apocalypse, and how the world we know ending can be just as difficult as surviving whatever comes after. Enormous opportunities in production for creative stagecraft, to bring these impossible moments to life. Funny and chilling in equal measure.

    I'm in awe of the breadth of this play, how enormous it allows its story and themes to grow, and how unapologetic its trans characters are given space to be. A play about the cyclical nature of apocalypse, and how the world we know ending can be just as difficult as surviving whatever comes after. Enormous opportunities in production for creative stagecraft, to bring these impossible moments to life. Funny and chilling in equal measure.

    ”

Development History

  • Reading, IATI Cimientos, 2026
  • Reading, Power Street Theatre, 2025

Awards

  • Trans History Project
    Breaking the Binary Theatre & Baltimore Center Stage
    Finalist
    2025