Friday, 10/18 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, 10/19 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, 10/20 at 2 p.m.
Wirtz Theater (Room 203)
Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts
Chicago Campus
Abbott Hall
710 N. Lake Shore Drive
Presented by the American Music Theatre Project and the Wirtz Center Chicago
Music by Jaime Lozano
Lyrics by Jaime Lozano & Florencia Cuenca
Book by Georgina Escobar
Original Concept by Jaime Lozano, Florencia Cuenca and Rachel M. Stevens
Directed by Florencia Cuenca
Rising musical theater composer and 2023 Jonathan Larson Award winner Jaime Lozano comes to AMTP to continue development of this new state-fair concert musical about stories of disappeared women from the borderlands. Told through the lens of Mexican folklore and music, writers Jaime Lozano, Florencia Cuenca, and Georgina Escobar explore the strategic erasure of female voices in the fight to end gender-based violence and the disappearance of women and girls. From the missing, to the socially invisible, to the forgotten, Desaparecidas takes place in a classic and timeless Mexican state fair (a Palenque) where the audience will experience a special appearance by some stories of the missing.
Desaparecidos (The Missing Ones), A Concert Reading, is a part of the Chicago Latin Theater Alliance’s (CLATA) DESTINOS, 7th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, Sept. 30-Nov. 17.
