DQT Presents…
Our flagship new play development program, wherein featured playwrights receive a live concert reading of one of their plays-in-progress.
La Esperanza (The Hopefulness)
Raquel Almazan, Playwright
LA ESPERANZA (THE HOPEFULNESS), an important new play by award winning playwright Raquel Almazan.
Anna and Jaqueline, sister sex workers in the Dominican Republic, are stowaways in the hold of a cargo ship headed for France. While trapped in a box, scenes from their past desperately emerge, and when these memories take a dark turn, the lines between the real and the imaginary blur, family secrets are revealed, and Anna and Jaqueline are hurtled toward a future that threatens to be as bleak as their past.
The exciting new play is directed by Gineiris Garcia, featuring Maria Isabella Rojas, Merlixse Ventura, and original music by Dilson Hernandez.
El Bacalao: The Catfish Man
Desi Moreno-Penson, Playwright
Loosely based on Euripides' THE BACCHAE, and taking place in the small backwater town of Thebes, Florida, EL BACALAO: The Catfish Man, tells the story of a dysfunctional, cantankerous Cuban family on the verge of losing everything. There's a storm coming; a restaurant is closed, a young girl is dead. And an indigenous Yoruban demigod is hell bent on vengeance.
Riding the Bear
Carmen Rivera Tirado, Playwright
RIDING THE BEAR takes place on October 19, 1987, the date of the financial crash known as Black Monday. The Harrington Brothers run a family boutique brokerage house. The older brother Rick, a conservative investor, believes in regulation and the younger brother, jerry, a more speculative investor, believes in diversification and unregulated markets. As the severity of the crash sets in, the brothers must decide on how to move their family business into the future, albeit with very contrasting ways of doing business.