Single Carrot Theatre to Present REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT

Passions boil over against the backdrop of a barren summer wasteland in in José Rivera's daring and sexy piece about the collapse of a marriage and the search for connection in the dessert.

Rivera, who also wrote The Motorcycle Diaries, is an expert storyteller, infusing his scripts with potent imagery, poetic language, and a lot of heat. References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot is a play with a punch. Rivera's story unravels itself in four sweeping acts, taking the audience from a dreamy, surrealistic world where a cat, a coyote, and the moon each weave themselves into the story of Gabriela, a military wife ensconced in loneliness. Entangled in this tale is a tense encounter steeped in realism between Gabriela and her husband Benito, just back from the field and ready for an impassioned reunion with his wife. Will their contention lead to an electric connection, or incinerate their marriage entirely? The couple's simmering tempers lead to a tug of war of emotions. Their long absences cause their reunion to be fraught with rage, tenderness, and lust and that relationship juxtaposed with the primal impulses of the Cat, the Coyote, and the Moon offer a buffet of sensuality for both the characters and the audience.

Frequent patrons of Single Carrot will recognize certain themes in Dali-dream-like characters and bubbling sensuality- but a real treat for SCT fans and newbies alike will be the relationship drama playing out between Benito and Gabriela. Strong and fierce, the central couple's fiery antics are the perfect clay for accomplished director Steven J. Satta to mold. In addition to numerous onstage credits, Satta holds a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Acting from York University in Toronto. He is also the Artistic Director of the Iron Crow Theatre Company, a Baltimore-based company dedicated to LGBT/Queer theatre.

With Satta at the helm of navigating Rivera's beautiful tale, Single Carrot brings to life one of the most treasured and lauded modern writers, while collaborating with the talents of the Baltimore arts ecosystem.

DETAILS:

References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
By José Rivera
Directed by Steven J. Satta
Featuring SCT Ensemble Members Nathan Fulton and Jessica Garrett

Preview Performances Wednesday, January 7th and Thursday, January 8th at 7:30PM
Running January 9th- February 8th, 2015
Thursday- Saturday at 7:30PM
Sundays at 2:30PM

All performances run at the Single Carrot Theatre, 2600 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Entrance on 26th Street. Free parking available in adjacent lot and on the street. Tickets: $10-30. Go to singlecarrot.com, call 443-844-9253, or email boxoffice@singlecarrot.com.

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