The Butterfly’s Evil Spell
Adapted from the play by Federico Garcia Lorca
Developed by the Ensemble
Music by Jeremy Douglass
May 7 – Jun. 1, 2025
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center
Devised in Jobsite’s captivating style as expressed in Shockheaded Peter, Gorey Stories, and Jobsite’s Alice, this imaginative English-language adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) fuses live music, visual art, puppetry, theater magic, and aerial and circus arts into thrilling theatrical experience. Lorca’s mystically poetic world of beetles, fireflies, and other magical creatures is disrupted when a hypnotic, wounded butterfly enters their dewdrop paradise. A young beetle is cast under a love spell, but a hungry scorpion is sure to shake things up in this timeless tale of beauty and desire.
Originally planned for the current 25th Season, this show was postponed due to a perfect storm of challenges and is now returning in a reimagined format.
Gorey Stories (10/23/24-11/17/24)
Macbeth (1/15/25-2/9/25)
The Pillowman (3/12/25-4/6/25)
Puffs Or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic (7/9/25-8/3/25)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] (8/13/25-8/24/25)
Jobsite Theater is at 1010 N Macinnes Pl, Tampa, FL.
The Guys (9/11/24-9/11/24)
POTUS or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (9/4/24-9/29/24)
The Smuggler (8/14/24-8/25/24)
The Rocky Horror Show (7/10/24-8/4/24)
The Smuggler: A Thriller In Verse (5/15/24-6/9/24)
The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (3/13/24-4/7/24)
Twelfth Night (1/17/24-2/11/24)
JOBSITE ROCKS! 25TH BIRTHDAY BASH (12/2/23-12/2/23)
Frankenstein (10/18/23-11/12/23)
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (9/13/23-10/8/23)
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A Christmas Carol
Carrollwood Players Theatre (12/6 - 12/22) | ||
The Butterfly's Evil Spell
Jobsite Theater (5/7 - 6/1) | ||
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