BAKTUN 13

A Milagro Theater Bilingual Touring Production

On Thursday, April 26, ““B’aktun 13”, a bilingual Miracle Theatre production written by Portland playwright Dañel Malán, explores the prediction that a drastic world shift will take place when the Mayan long count calendar comes to an end on Dec. 21, 2012” will be performed at Russell Tripp Performance Center at 7 p.m. 

The play, B’aktun 13, was a participating production of the 2012 FertileGround festival of new works. 

The premise of the play shows the spiritual side of the ancient prophecy but also ties in “the contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation and identity that hit even more powerfully and poignantly than the thought of a world that may be no more” said Emilee Booher of the Willamette Week.  The three main characters, after being deported from the U. S. to Mexico, unfold to remedy the impending doomsday through themes of acceptance and unification.

B’aktun 13 was written by Danel Malan, who co-founded the Miracle Theatre Group with her husband Jose Eduardo Gonzalez and in 1989 she created the touring program, Teatro Milagro, which has provided opportunities for many ethnic artists for over 20 years.

 

The play is directed by Matthew B. Zrebski, who teaches playwriting through the Literary Arts WITS program as well as for Visions and Voices at Portland Center Stage.  Zrebski  “has mounted over 40 world premieres and has had many of his own plays produced, including the planet ME, Neck, A Place Called Timothy, Parts, After the Zipper, Darkstep and Dawning, The Vespiary, Ablaze, Hunter in the Corner, The Aquavarian, Handprint Alley, and Rubber 'n' Glue” and “is also an occasional guest professor at Pacific University. “  

Unidad workshop will be available at 4 p.m. For information, call 541-917-4554.

At a Glance

Baktun 13

April 26, 2012 7 p.m.

$9 Adults, $7 Seniors (60 and over) and Students (with student ID), $5 under 18 (with adult or groups of 15 or more

Box office information: 

Online: www.linnbenton.edu/go/tickets

At the door: beginning 2 hours prior to performance at the Russell Tripp Performance CenterBox Office Hours: Tues-Thur, 8:00 - 10:00am, 2:00 - 4:00pm & 2 hours prior to curtain

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