Playwright: Diana Burbano
Director: Melinda Hall
Musical Guest: Marie Gabrielle
In the near future, an inexplicable plague infests La Gran Colombia. Ingrid Bolivar--the brilliant, mad ex-wife of Colombia's leader--is the only one who knows that the plague is carried by young women of the streets, whom she adopts and uses as weapons against the government. Policarpa, a girl with magical gifts, is supposed to be Ingrid's secret apocalyptic weapon. But when Policarpa falls in love with a top government official, she resists becoming an instrument of destruction and instead seeks to become a savior through sacrifice.
Rooted in traditional Latin American magical realism, the nightmare magic science fiction world of Policarpa exists in a neither here-or-there.
Cast includes: Diana Burbano, Kimberly Huie, Maria Cristina Pimiento, Sara Villegas, Natalia Hernandez, and Melinda Hall
POLICARPA was recorded in December 2017