Our Lady Of Mariposas

Plays by Alix Hudson on Big Screen
Presented by Teatro Paraguas

Friday • July 23 • 7 p.m.
Free, donations gratefully accepted

Reservations: 505.424.1601
Seating is limited. More information is available at TeatroParaguasNM.org.

Alix Hudson has been a dynamic force in the Santa Fe theatre scene for the last eight years as a playwright, director, actor, and technician. Although most of her work has benefitted Teatro Paraguas where she is a board member, Alix has worked with many Santa Fe companies, including NM Actors Lab, Ironweed Productions, and &Sons Theatre.

Alix will soon be moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her partner Sharla Stearn. To honor her huge contribution to Teatro Paraguas and Santa Fe theatre, videos of her critically acclaimed plays produced at Teatro Paraguas—Our Lady of Mariposas, Revolution, Atravesada, and Hummingbird—will be screened in a mini-festival July 23 to 25.

Schedule of events:
Our Lady Of Mariposas, Friday • July 23 • 7 p.m.

Revolution, Saturday • July 24 • 4 p.m.

Atravesada: Poetry of the Border, Sunday • July 25 • 4 p.m.

Hummingbird, Sunday • July 25 • 7 p.m.

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Our Lady of Mariposas (2015) takes place in Southeastern New Mexico between February and May of 2002. Manuel is a working dad, single after his wife, Estrella, left him, four months before the action begins. At the opening of the play, we learn of the massive die-off of monarch butterflies that took place in February 2002. Anza, Manuel’s daughter, loves the monarchs and so Manuel must explain why they may not migrate through again—a conversation further complicated by Estrella’s absence. Kate, their next-door neighbor and close friend, helps immeasurably. She uses her own family’s experience of uranium mining in Grants to try to describe the difference between active hope and fruitless waiting. Esperanza, the character of Anza grown up and surveying the scene as a memory play–comments on her feelings and her perspective at the time. Meanwhile, Kate and Manuel grow closer through comfort and turmoil. The themes of family, home, and self become inextricably bound with Anza’s experience of the earth as she waits and hopes for the monarchs to return. Directed by Argos MacCallum.

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Teatro Paraguas
3205 Calle Marie

Contact: Argos MacCallum • argos@teatroparaguas.org • 505.577.2679