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Jul 17, 2019 · Most everybody knows that Medea kills her children to take revenge on their two-timing father Jason. But “Mojada,” playwright Luis Alfaro’s modern-day adaptation at the Public Theater, zeroes in on a little-noted fact about the character – that, in following Jason, she became a foreigner in a foreign land.
- Off-Broadway
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Money Heist: The Phenomenon: Directed by Luis Alfaro, Pablo Lejarreta. With Úrsula Corberó, Rodrigo de la Serna, Miguel Herrán, Jaime Lorente. A documentary on why and how "Money Heist" sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world for a lovable group of thieves and their professor.
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- Luis Alfaro, Pablo Lejarreta
- 2020-04-03
Mojada is Luis Alfaro’s powerful and moving adaptation of Euripides’ Medea. It follows his earlier adaptation of the same material, Bruja , which (like Euripides’ play) stressed Medea’s persona as a sorceress who has access to supernatural powers.
Luis Alfaro (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist. He grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in East Los Angeles.
Luis Alfaro’s lyrical and provocative adaptation of the Greek drama Medea re-frames Euripdes’ narrative in the complicated landscape of present-day Los Angeles. Alfaro’s Medea - an outsider like her ancient namesake - is as beautiful and vicious as ever.
Jul 18, 2024 · Luis Alfaro: The Joy of Not Knowing. The artistic director of the Magic Theatre talks to the playwright of ‘The Travelers,’ the playscript in our Summer print issue, about poetry, process, and possibility. By Sean San José.
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Jul 12, 2019 · Luis Alfaro didn’t expect to find the heroine of a Greek tragedy at a juvenile hall in Tucson, Ariz. As a traveling playwright teaching a workshop for teen felons in 1999, he met a promising...
