Paradise Red (2014)
Produced by
Alameda Theatre Company and Cocodrilo Triste Theatre Collective
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Playwright: Bruce Gibbons Fell
Director: Marilo Nuñez
Venue
Run
August 7th, 2014 – August 17th, 2014
Synopsis
Set as a black and white Latin American soap opera, Paradise Red takes place in the days of Chile’s dictatorship in the 1970s, where a powerful military family has run amok.
A story of repressed sexual desire and political violence during a melodramatic weekend in the home of General Cristóbal Riofrío, whom has recently died of supposed natural causes. His estranged son returns home after the funeral, suspicious of foul play only to find his alcoholic mother and good girl Catholic sister hiding sordid bloody secrets.
How much truth will he find behind the private life of his powerful family?
Or are they lost in total oblivion in regard to the abuse and violence they create, refusing to face the consequences of their irreparable damage? (summerworks.ca)
Cast
| Carmen Aguirre | Luciana Riofrío |
| Alex Muir Contreras | Benjamin Riofrio |
| Rosa Laborde | Eugenia Riofrio |
Creative Team
| Bruce Gibbons Fell | Playwright |
| Marilo Nuñez | Director |
| Erica Kopyto | Dramaturge |
| Flavia Hevia | Set Designer |
| Diana Colavecchia | Costume Designer |
| Manuel Alejandro Gutierrez | Music |
| Manuel Alejandro Gutierrez | Sound Designer |
| Clare Preuss | Movement |
| Manuel Alejandro | Sound Designer |
Production
| Marie-Claude Valiquet | Stage Manager |
| Marco Fuentes | Producer (Cocodrilo Triste) |
| Joseph Recinos | Artistic Producing Intern |
| Patricia Zepeda | Administrative Assistant |
| Patricia Zepeda | Producing Assistant |
| Peter Riddihough | Set Builder |
| Peter Riddihough | Promotional Material Designer |
| Peter Riddihough | Photography |
| Peter Riddihough | Video |
Staff
| Dylan Eadie | Venue Technician |
| Curtis Whittaker | Venue Technician |
| Mikael Kangas | Festival Lighting Designer |
