Center Stage, SPAIN arts & culture to Present Free Reading of FUGA MUNDI, 6/15

Center Stage, the State Theater of Maryland, in conjunction with SPAIN arts & culture, presents a free reading of Fuga Mundi, a new play by Spanish playwright Mar Gómez Glez, in a new English-language translation on June 15, 2016. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, 2801 16th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20009. For more information, click here. Admission is free. Seating is limited. RSVP required.

Set in 17th-century Spain, Fuga Mundi explores the complicated lives of women living in an increasingly intolerant state. Audacious sculptor Juana stands at the center of a controversy surrounding her latest work: a statue of the Virgin based on a young Moorish girl. This play and its all-female cast explore the politics of gender, sexuality, and race in a society that demands conformity-or else.

The play was developed under the auspices of an International Hot Desk playwright residency at Center Stage, with the support of SPAIN arts & culture, and will be read in a new translation by Professor Jeanie Murphy (Goucher College). The collaboration between playwright Mar Gómez Glez, dramaturg Catherine María Rodríguez, and director Jacob Janssen is an outgrowth of SPAIN arts & culture's 2013 New Plays from Spain readings.

The reading will be presented in English, with a Spanish text available. Organized by Center Stage, the State Theater of Maryland, in conjunction with SPAIN arts & culture. Image by Bárbara Mínguez García.