First Public Reading 2011
Friday, September 23rd @ 8PM & Saturday 24th at 2PM
La Nacional: 239 West 14th Street (btwn 7th & 8th avenues)
ENTRANCE FREE OF CHARGE / BAR and TAPAS
Jackie Shark is the HOST, the JOKER, and God, in an interview "Talk Show" setting, she sits with Spanish & Latino historical characters: Eva Perón, Simón Bolivar, Dolores Ibarruri, and Antonio Machín. The guests humorously flaunt past heroic actions that will unveil humbling secrets which ultimately lead them on a cathartic path to liberation from the cycle of rebirth or not; depending on which of the two doors is chosen and how attached to this world they still are.
Antonio Machín, 1903 - 1977 - One of the most recorded Cuban singers of the 20th century who in 1930 became a hit wonder in New York with the song, El manisero (The Peanut Vendor), becoming the first Cuban song to sell over a million copies around the world, presaging the rumba explosion of the 1930s. Died in Sevilla, Spain where he lived most of his life.
PLAYED BY: Rick Reid
Maria Eva (Ibarguren) Perón “Evita” (1919-1952) Argentinian leader and 2nd wife of Juan Perón. In her time Evita was the most powerful woman in the world.
PLAYED BY: Elizabeth Inghram
Simón Bolivar (1783 – 1830)
Liberator of the Americas, leading the independence movement for 6 nations in northern South America. The George Washington of Spanish America.
PLAYED BY: Dar Riser
Dolores Ibarruri “Pasionaria” (1895 – 1989)
A Basque woman of indomitable spirit and a great Spaniard who founded the Spanish Communist party, and won international renown during the Spanish Civil War for her courage defending Republican Spain against Franco.
PLAYED BY: Dana Jacks
The HOST is JACKIE SHARK the JOKER and GOD too
PLAYED BY: Diana Oh
DIRECTED BY: Alberto Bonilla
