SE LLAMA CRISTINA

SEASON 2014

By Octavio Solis
Directed by Robert Castro

A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere

A man and woman wake up in a strange apartment surrounded by drug paraphernalia and an empty crib. They must piece together who they are, and were, and where that baby might be, all while trying to create a new future for themselves. A gritty, poetic look at the uncertainty of life and our desperate need for belonging, Se Llama Cristina asks if it’s possible to rise above your circumstances to make a better life.

cast

Amielynn Abellera
Paula Christenen
Justin Huen
Christian Rummel

understudies

Kyla Garcia
Joseph Valdez
Janelle Velasquez
Brad C. Wilcox

Production team

Scenic Design – Gronk
Sound Design – John Zalewski & Veronika Vorel
Costume Design – Victoria Petrovich
Lighting Design – Ben Zamora
Properties Design – Jenny Smith Cohn
Assistant Director – Dave Mancini
Dramaturg – Aaron Henne
Casting – Julia Flores
Assistant to the Scenic Designer – Lawrence Mota
Production Stage Manager – Alyssa Escalante
Fight Choreography – Brian Danner
Production Photography – Ed Krieger

“Se Llama Cristina belongs to a school of theater that discomfits as much as it gentles. At once gritty and highly lyrical, Boston Court’s handling keeps the audience almost permanently off-balance. Christensen’s performance merges vulnerable physicality with fury, but we never quite know whether to take her at her word. Huen’s good-guy act always threatens to slip on his love of the bottle, and Rummel’s buffoonery alternates with a quicksilver brutality.” – LA Weekly

“Pragmatically organized by the Boston Court as the third of three sequential individual premiere productions by Magic Theatre in San Francisco and Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, the previous presentations of Se Llama Cristina were naturalistically realized, and director Robert Castro has instead taken this one in a radically different direction: abstract, austere, distilled and concentrated. Its deliberately focused intensity highlights some of the play’s originality in spasms of unalloyed mental agony while scanting motivations and causing jarring shifts, all intended but only some of which are successfully effective.” – Hollywood Reporter

“Se Llama Cristina can be a little disorienting and ungrounded, ultimately it’s the actor’s performances that provide something to hold onto in a story that for all its poetry is really quite simple. At its heart, it’s a couple faced with the terror of how to escape their pasts to become the parents they need to be.” – KCRW

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