Las Azurduy
Fri, Aug 19
|Brava Theater Center Cabaret
A journey into the mind of a female warrior minutes before her death. Her last battle is against oblivion. With an all-Latina cast, this play invokes the powerful figure of Juana Azurduy, a South American independence leader, whose courage, conviction, and spirit require three characters to recount
Time & Location
Aug 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – Aug 28, 2022, 7:00 PM
Brava Theater Center Cabaret, 2781 24th Street
About the event
Las Azurduy is an original play commissioned to Argentinian playwright Florencia Aroldi about Juana Azurduy, a hero of Latin America’s wars of independence against the Spanish crown, a mixed-race woman of Indigenous descent who is only recently receiving her dues in the history books. This play is also an excuse to reflect on the invisibility of female work, on our silenced voices, and our erased faces.
Juana Azurduy embodied the resilience and spirit of Latin American women, as well as the mix of cultural and ancestral heritage that typifies the American experience. Today La Lengua clamors her name out loud for all to remember, and in Florencia Aroldi’s tour-de-force new play, it takes three performers to embody Azurduy’s complex and indomitable spirit – hence “Las Azurduy.” This project involves an all- Latinx female ensemble, playwriting, and creative team.
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Las Azurduy es una obra de teatro original comisionada a la…