*NECESSARY DIGRESSION & TORN PAGE PRESENTS

FAUNA

By Romina Paula

Translated by April Sweeney & Brenda Werth

English language premiere

September 16-October 1, 2022

At Torn Page, Chelsea,  435 W 22nd St @ 9th Ave. 15 performances only. Seating is extremely limited. Reservations REQUIRED

Running Time: 90 minutes

Fri. 9.16 and Sat. 9.17 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm Sun. 9.18 at 7:00pm

Thur. 9.22 at 7:00pm Fri. 9.23 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm

Sat. 9.24 at 7:00pm Sun. 9.25 at 7:00pm 

Thur. 9.29 at  7:00pm Fri. 9.30 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm

Sat. 10.1 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm 

Tickets are donation based ($22-$33 suggested). Pay what you wish depending on your income. Tickets must be reserved one at a time. Click the link below and look for the “select a date” button on the linked Eventbrite page to see the full range of performance options.

Masks and Proof of Updated Vaccination Status required for entry. ​

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Directed by April Sweeney.

Performed by

* Laura Butler Rivera, *Richard Jesse Johnson, *Veraalba Santa, & *David Skeist.

Designed by Calypso Michellet, Anna Labykina, and Paul Pinto.

A *Necessary Digression collaboration with Torn Page, Colgate University and The Martin E. Segal Theater  Center

“But as you left, the stage cracked 

To reveal a flash of the real, a fissure 

Through which you departed: green of real green,

Real sunshine, real forest.”-Rilke

FAUNA brings together four characters involved in the making of a film, a film that will never be made: a fictionalized biography based on a legendary figure who in her lifetime dressed like a man, translated Rilke, and rode her horse with abandon through the campo until she was in her nineties. FAUNA contemplates how to tell the story of a life, questions what is true and real, and asks us to decipher where fiction and the real co-exist.