GALA Theater Preview

El retablillo de Don Cristóbal/The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal

Join Teaching for Change at this exclusive preview of Federico García Lorca's play.
This is an opportunity to enjoy a great play and support Teaching for Change in our 20th anniversary.

About the play: Directed by acclaimed Argentine director Adhemar Bianchi and puppeteer Ximena Bianchi. Influenced by his passionate enthusiasm for the marionettes of his childhood, García Lorca combines his unique poetic lyricism and the rough folk humor of the traditional trickster in this bawdy and delicious farce. This is fertile terrain for Bianchi’s love of popular art forms: street theater, circus, commedia dell’arte, and Golden Age Spanish theater. In his staging, Republican soldiers and members of the Abraham Lincoln International Brigade who are fighting in the Spanish Civil War celebrate their cause for freedom with impassioned songs of the war and a joyful performance of Lorca’s puppet play. In Spanish with English surtitles.

Special thanks to the GALA Theatre for selecting Teaching for Change as the beneficiary for this preview night. (The play runs from April 8 - May 2, 2010.)

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7 p.m. reception
8 p.m. performance

GALA Theatre
3333 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20010

Our goal for this 20th anniversary fundraising event is: $10,000.

Tickets are available for a minimum $40 donation each. You can also sponsor a seat for teachers and parent leaders, or donate any amount. All donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Options:
Ticket: $40 min. each
Sponsor a seat: $40 min. each
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