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"...Repertorio's funniest and most ambitious production..! -The Star Ledger
Nuyoricans doing Shakespeare in search for their thespian dreams.
By Eugene Rodríguez
Directed by Alfredo Galván
Starring Frank Robles {Cheo}, Monica Perez Brandes {Dolores}, Belange Rodr’guez {Dee Dee}, Emanuel Loarca {Felipe}, Karina Casiano {Cindy}, Joksan Ramos {Angelo}, Marly J. Rivera {Maggie}.
Assistant to the Director: María Cristina Fusté
Coreography: Adolfo Vásquez
Stage combat coreographer: Tensy Ann Vela
Production Design: Robert Weber Federico
Prop Master: Jesús Martínez
Sound designer: Frankie Miranda
Photos by: Michael Palma
This play is mostly in Spanish with some Shakespeare excerpts in English.
(Simultaneous English translation available)
Recommended for adult audiences
The San Juan Shakespeare Company is a farce about the trials and tribulations encountered by a small Latino theatre company attempting to produce "Nuyorican Theatre” in New York City. The company is torn apart by their star performer Dolores Desmond, a classically trained “Actor” who wants to perform classical theatre before a legitimate audience. After the breakup Cheo, the CEO of the company, attempts to reinvent the ensemble as “The San Juan Shakespeare Company” to compete in a Shakespeare Festival for a $10,000 prize against their Arch rivals the detested “THEM!” (Theatre for Hispanics Exploring Marxism).
Cheo holds auditions for “Latino Actors who want to achieve greatness,” and all of his old actors return. They reconstitute the company, after some changes to their modus operandi, and continue to search for actors until Dolores returns and fills out their complement. They then collectively decide which Shakespeare Play to do, and begin rehearsals with a Director who is never there. With Dolores’s tough leadership, rehearsals bond them together as a company, and they go on to win first prize in the festival. In the final scene, they outdo THEM when they “Sweep the Woobies, (Way Off-Broadway Awards) by taking 4 awards for their performance.
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""In his new play, "The San Juan Shakespeare Company," Rodriguez has taken several real-life personalities and situations from his experiences... and turned it into a scathing comedy about a struggling Nuyorican theater company.""
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—New York Daily News |
""...with 'The San Juan Shakespeare Company,' Repertorio has come out with its funniest and most ambitious production in a very long time.""
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—The Star-Ledger |
"El aviso leía: “Las Risas comienzan el 30 de octubre” y efectivamente la promesa fue cumplida. Este día fue el estreno de la obra puertorriqueña The San Juan Shakespeare Company, presentada por el teatro Repertorio Español. Desde que mis acompañantes y yo llegamos a nuestros asientos no paramos de reírnos. "
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—Tiempo, New York |
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