SYNOPSIS: Marian Pabón, one of the most successful actresses from Puerto Rico, talks about how difficult it is to be a woman, especially in that hellish and frightening stage of fevers, cold sores, depression, anger, intolerance... and outbursts of "unexpected gushes" due to that hormonal madness called MENOPAUSE. You will hear funny anecdotes from Marian, explaining how this has affected her life... making her crazier than she is.

This show, created in 2019, has been enjoyed by over 13 thousand people and has more than 70 performances in and outside of PR. Some of them are Chicago, NY, Hartford, Miami, Orlando, Ocala, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Boston,

Washington DC, Providence, and Santo Domingo, among others. Now in Cleveland for a limited one-weekend run.

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Dolores Prida was a feminist and Hispanic dramatist whose central theme was the search for the identity of Latino/Hispanic immigrants, specifically women, in the United States.

She was known as the Cubarican, born in Cuba but also well versed in Puerto Rican culture, learned in New York, she wrote this play, La Botánica, with all Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) characters.

La Botánica explores cultural conflicts in East Harlem among an old Puerto Rican woman, her daughter, and her granddaughter, who has just graduated from an Ivy League university. The old woman, Doña Geno, runs a business dealing in herbs, spells, and spiritual powers. She and her daughter, Anamu, expect Anamu's daughter, Milagros Castillo, to take over the shop, La Ceiba.

But, Milagros -- who began calling herself Millie at college, since, as she says, Miracles Castle isn't a great name in English -- plans to take up a career in a big bank downtown and forget about the barrio. But she has things to learn that the Ivy League doesn't teach, and Doña Geno is just the professor she needs.

Tickets at: https://latinus-theater-experience-companyinc.square.site/

Dolores Prida was a feminist and Hispanic dramatist whose central theme was the search for the identity of Latino/Hispanic immigrants, specifically women, in the United States.

She was known as the Cubarican, born in Cuba but also well versed in Puerto Rican culture, learned in New York, she wrote this play, La Botánica, with all Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) characters.

La Botánica explores cultural conflicts in East Harlem among an old Puerto Rican woman, her daughter, and her granddaughter, who has just graduated from an Ivy League university. The old woman, Doña Geno, runs a business dealing in herbs, spells, and spiritual powers. She and her daughter, Anamu, expect Anamu's daughter, Milagros Castillo, to take over the shop, La Ceiba.

But, Milagros -- who began calling herself Millie at college, since, as she says, Miracles Castle isn't a great name in English -- plans to take up a career in a big bank downtown and forget about the barrio. But she has things to learn that the Ivy League doesn't teach, and Doña Geno is just the professor she needs.

Tickets at: https://latinus-theater-experience-companyinc.square.site/

Dolores Prida was a feminist and Hispanic dramatist whose central theme was the search for the identity of Latino/Hispanic immigrants, specifically women, in the United States.

She was known as the Cubarican, born in Cuba but also well versed in Puerto Rican culture, learned in New York, she wrote this play, La Botánica, with all Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) characters.

La Botánica explores cultural conflicts in East Harlem among an old Puerto Rican woman, her daughter, and her granddaughter, who has just graduated from an Ivy League university. The old woman, Doña Geno, runs a business dealing in herbs, spells, and spiritual powers. She and her daughter, Anamu, expect Anamu's daughter, Milagros Castillo, to take over the shop, La Ceiba.

But, Milagros -- who began calling herself Millie at college since, as she says, Miracles Castle isn't a great name in English -- plans to take up a career in a big bank downtown and forget about the barrio. But she has things to learn that the Ivy League doesn't teach, and Doña Geno is just the professor she needs.

Tickets at: https://latinus-theater-experience-companyinc.square.site/

Is it almost Christmas, what happens when a group of Mexican angels have to help Mary and Joseph to get safely to the manger so that the baby Jesus is born and a group of little devils, also Mexicans, make life impossible for them through of a bet to avoid it?

Well, a mess of the devil, Sorry (the sign of the cross.)

We will laugh out loud while a heavenly or earthly battle takes place between angels and devils to see who wins the bet.

And then. What happened in the 1940s, in a Puerto Rico neighborhood called Cuchilla, Saint Claus was not known, but only the Three Wise Men and a young teacher from Nueva Yol decided to change the tradition?

Oh, blessed Santa Clo is going to have to run for his life!!

In Spanish, with English supertitles!

¿Ya es casi Navidad, que pasa cuando un grupo de ángeles mexicanos tiene que ayudar a María y a José a llegar sanos y salvos al pesebre para que el niño Jesús nazca y un grupo de diablitos, también mexicanos, les hace la vida imposible a través de una apuesta para evitarlo?

 Pues un enredo del demonio, Perdón (signo de persignación.)

Nos reiremos a carcajadas mientras ocurre una batalla celestial, o terrenal entre los ángeles y diablitos a ver quién gana la apuesta.

 Y luego. ¿Qué pasa cuando por los años 40’ en un barrio de Puerto Rico llamado Cuchilla no se conocía a Saint Claus, pero solo a Los Reyes Magos y un joven maestro de Nueva Yol decide cambiar la tradición?

¡¡Ay, bendito que Santa Clo va a tener que correr por su vida!!

 ¡En español, con supertitulos en ingles!

The work recounts the events that happens in Bogota during November 1986 when the terrorist group M-19 took the justice palace since from the perspective of ordinary people. Julieta Marín, a young law student who works to pay for her studies as a cashier in the Palace of Justice cafeteria, never appeared among the survivors and the dead of the takeover. The disappearance unleashes chaos, fears and repression of the tenants of the house: Sergio, a waiter with clown skills, and Victoria, his wife, who make up the passionate knot of the story, Carlos, a usurer who negotiates with desperation of the others, Humberto, a confused young man who cannot overcome his lack of maturity, and Lucía, the mother, owner of the house, a woman who falls into the web of madness since the disappearance of her daughter, become victims. of a foreign and own war at the same time. They give color to the country's flag, personifying the imaginary of any Colombian who faces political conflicts and who is not necessarily aware of them, who experiences his desires and frustrations in the midst of the turbulent social changes of the time.

La obra relata los hechos del la toma del Palacio de justicia en Bogota en noviembre del 1986 desde el punto de vista de la gente común. Julieta Marín, una joven estudiante de derecho que trabaja para costearse sus estudios como cajera en la cafetería del Palacio de Justicia, jamás apareció entre los sobrevivientes y los muertos de la toma. La desaparición desencadena el caos, los temores y represiones de los inquilinos de la casa: Sergio, un mesero con dotes de payaso, y Victoria, su mujer, quienes conforman el nudo pasional de la historia, Carlos, un usurero que negocia con la desesperación de los demás, Humberto, un joven confundido que no logra superar su falta de madurez, y Lucía, la madre, dueña de la casa, una mujer que cae en las redes de la locura desde la desaparición de su hija, se convierten en victimas de una guerra ajena y propia a la vez. Le dan color a la bandera del país personificando los imaginarios de cualquier colombiano que se enfrenta a los conflictos políticos y que no necesariamente es consciente de ellos, que vive sus anhelos y sus frustraciones en medio de los turbulentos cambios sociales de la época.