Event

Bandara

Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater announce a new line-up of plays for the Latino Asian Fusion Series. The two companies are collaborating to produce three commissioned plays and associated events that highlight the intersections, relationships, and influences between Latino and Asian cultures.

Bandara explores Puerto Rican and Indian cultures through the significance of the monkey motif. In New York, a young pathologist of mixed heritage unsuccessfully tries to find emotional connections in the city. In his research and life he begins to discover regressions to a primal state. In India, a young woman has lost a baby that was left under her charge in an orphanage. During the investigation of the disappearance, she remembers a past life in the Caribbean where she was a man whose pregnant wife was haunted by human-monkey creatures. In the theater, these and other stories come together through a trans-media staging that immerses the audience in an experience of presence and hallucination.