New Visions 2018: 99 Histories

Three plays highlight the work of this year’s graduating MFA directors and actors

Sueño  
by José Rivera 
directed by Sarah Young 

Our first play of the 2018 New Visions Festival, Sueño is directed by third-year MFA student Sarah Young. Sueño is Obie Award-winning playwright José Rivera's translation and adaptation of Calderón de la Barca's classic Life Is a Dream. Set in 1635, this metaphysical drama—renowned as one of the jewels of the Spanish Golden Age—Sueño follows the life of young Prince Segismundo, heir to the Spanish throne, who is imprisoned at birth when astrologers predict that his reign as king will result in the country's ruin.

September 26 at 7pm
September 27 at 7pm
September 28 at 7pm
September 29 at 2pm (Talkback to Follow)
September 29 at 7pm

99 Histories  
by Julia Cho 
directed by Rebecca Etzine 

Our second play of the 2018 New Visions Festival is directed by third-year MFA student Rebecca Etzine. 99 Histories is a beautifully haunting and moving play about memory, legacy, and the unbreakable bond between mother and child.

October 31 at 7pm
November 1 at 7pm
November 2 at 7pm
November 3 at 2pm (Talkback to Follow)
November 3 at 7pm

Roberto Zucco  
by Bernard-Marie Koltés 
directed by Joey Rizzolo 

The third and final play in the 2018 New Visions Festival is directed by Joey Rizzolo. Roberto Zucco was the last play by legendary French writer Bernard-Marie Koltès, "a pioneer of a wholly new style of dramatic writing" (The Times). In a series of poetic, fast-moving scenes, Koltès takes his titular hero on a mythical journey through a landscape of strange and violent beauty.

December 5 at 7pm
December 6 at 7pm
December 7 at 7pm
December 8 at 2pm (Talkback to Follow)
December 8 at 7pm

Talkback Dates: 
September 29 at 2pm
November 3 at 2pm
December 8 at 2pm