Teatro Paraguas Presents

26 Miles

by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Directed by Valli Marie Rivera

October 15 through 31
Thursday through Saturday • 7:30 p.m.
Sunday • 2 p.m.
$15 to 25
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Teatro Paraguas is pleased to present 26 Miles, a play about an estranged Latina mother and her White Jewish teenage daughter who find themselves on a spontaneous road trip to discover one another — and see the buffalo in Yellowstone.

Valli Marie Rivera directs this tender, hilarious and spirited play by Quiara Alegria Hudes, who admits that the play is fairly autobiographical, reflecting her own Puerto Rican-Jewish background. Hudes won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by The Spoonful (2012).  She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2009 for the book of In The Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2007 musical which is now a seminal movie (Hudes wrote the screenplay as well).

Her directing credits over the last 25 years in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque are extensive, including Four Guys Named Jose and Una Mujer Named  Maria by Dolores Prida, as well as Bless Me, Ultima, Farolitos of Christmas, and Rosa Linda by Rudolfo Anaya (all co-productions of The Vortex and National Hispanic Cultural Center). Other plays include  Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, Caridad Svich’s House of the Spirits, Nilo Cruz’s  Lorca in a Green Dress, Denise Chavez’s Plaza, Sam Shepard’s Eyes for Consuela, Ramón Chalbaud’s Sacred and Obscene and Patricia Crespin’s The Medea Complex.  

Teatro Paraguas has produced 4 of Hudes’ plays, including Yemaya’s Belly, Daphne’s Dive, and two of the three plays in the Elliot Trilogy: Water by the Spoonful and Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue.

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