Photo Flash: Teatro Milagro's B'aktun 13

B’aktun 13 is a participating production of the 2012 Fertile Ground festival of new works (www.fertilegroundpdx.org). After its two-week run in Portland, B’aktun 13 will go on tour to schools, colleges and universities around the country. The scenery and props are intentionally minimalistic for flexible performance venues and non-traditional performance spaces.

About the show: Swept up in an immigration raid and deported to Mexico, Rio, Luz and Sal are suddenly immersed into indigenous prophecies surrounding B’aktun 13, the final era in the Mayan calendar. In the Yucatán, they encounter Mayan deities Ixchel, goddess of water and moon, and Ahpuch, god of death, who lead the trio deeper into a mythological universe. Time revolves like a Mayan calendar as each must face the consequences of their pasts. When the end of the era of B’aktun 13 arrives on December 21, 2012, will the world change? Or will they?

ABOUT THE SPONSORS
This production is sponsored by Juan Young Trust, La Bonita Restaurant and Just Out newspaper.

Miracle Theatre Group’s 2011-2012 season is sponsored in part by Meyer Memorial Trust, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, The Kinsman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council and Work for Art, El Centinela, and El Hispanic News.

ABOUT MIRACLE THEATRE GROUP
The Miracle Theatre Group has been dedicated to bringing the vibrancy of Latino theatre to the Northwest community and beyond for more than 27 years. In addition to its national tours, Miracle provides a home for Spanish and Latin American arts and culture at El Centro Milagro, where it enriches the local community with a variety of community outreach projects and educational programs designed to share the diversity of Latino culture. For more information about the Miracle Theatre Group, visit www.milagro.org or call 503-236-7253.

Photos by Russell Young

Dañel Malán

Tricia Castañeda-Gonzales, Daniel Moreno and Ajai Terrazas-Tripathi

Ajai Terrazas-Tripathi, Daniel Moreno, and Tricia Castañeda-Gonzales