Season 29 2021-2022
Season 29: Wonder Within Reach
“Isolation is a tricky thing; as priorities are simultaneously distorted and clarified, wonder becomes slippery and hard to hold on to. I find myself in a moment where I am actively working to reorder what is my responsibility to interrogate and how I will or will not make it the same moving forward. I know I am not alone in this investigation, and I cannot think of two better plays with which to come together and dig in. Whether the wickedly funny and terrifying anthem to boundlessness that is The Moors or the heart-wrenching pull between reconciliation and revolution of Last Hermanos, both make me insatiably curious about how ancestry accumulates and where we are all headed.” – Kirsten Fitzgerald, Artistic Director, A Red Orchid Theatre
Season 29 Shows
Directed by Artistic Director Kirsten Fitzgerald
Chicago Premiere
Directed by Ismael Lara, Jr.
World Premiere
Reunited and on the run, Miguel and Julio are fleeing an America where being Latinx is a life sentence. Sequestered in a Texas state park, the arrival of a sympathetic deserter, Shepherd, brings the conflict between Julio’s desire for revolution and Miguel’s longing for normalcy into sharp focus. Recorded last season as an audio play and now in its theatrical world premiere, LAST HERMANOS is a story of tenacious brotherhood and love in a not-so-distant future that asks: which path promises the better future?
Season 29: Wonder Within Reach
“Isolation is a tricky thing; as priorities are simultaneously distorted and clarified, wonder becomes slippery and hard to hold on to. I find myself in a moment where I am actively working to reorder what is my responsibility to interrogate and how I will or will not make it the same moving forward. I know I am not alone in this investigation, and I cannot think of two better plays with which to come together and dig in. Whether the wickedly funny and terrifying anthem to boundlessness that is The Moors or the heart-wrenching pull between reconciliation and revolution of Last Hermanos, both make me insatiably curious about how ancestry accumulates and where we are all headed.” -Kirsten Fitzgerald, Artistic Director, A Red Orchid Theatre
Season 29 Shows
The Moors
Directed by Artistic Director Kirsten Fitzgerald
Chicago Premiere
Last Hermanos
Directed by Ismael Lara, Jr.
World Premiere
Reunited and on the run, Miguel and Julio are fleeing an America where being Latinx is a life sentence. Sequestered in a Texas state park, the arrival of a sympathetic deserter, Shepherd, brings the conflict between Julio’s desire for revolution and Miguel’s longing for normalcy into sharp focus. Recorded last season as an audio play and now in its theatrical world premiere, LAST HERMANOS is a story of tenacious brotherhood and love in a not-so-distant future that asks: which path promises the better future?