Price
- £14.00 Full Price
- £13.00 Members
Length
- 95
Presented By
- DeNada Dance Theatre
a QUEER Tragedy Inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly
Under the flickering neon lights of a distant Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love in choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s queer reimagining of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.
Mariposa is an operatic dance drama that transports Puccini’s Orientalist libretto to post-revolution Cuba, to a dockland world of faded showgirls, hopeful rent boys, troubled sailors and voodoo spirits. A story of love engulfed in a tropical storm of repressed desires, in which a young man is asked to sacrifice his gender in exchange for love and a better life.
Set to an original score by award-winning Spanish composer Luis Miguel Cobo, which takes its inspiration from Caribbean sounds as well as Puccini; libretto by French-Indian poet Karthika Nair; designs by Ryan Laight and performed by an intergenerational and diverse cast, Mariposa asks what are we willing to sacrifice in order to be loved and accepted.
A trans Madama Butterfly that will linger in the mind
Financial Times
Best of all, it's a great piece of storytelling; one I suspect most are unlikely to forget
Dancing Times
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