It’s actually very easy. First you attend one play. Then you attend the second.
Thalía Spanish Theatre will host Ocho Mujeres Asesinas and Ana en el Trópico in January.
A comedy by French playwright Robert Thomas, Ocho Mujeres Asesinas follows eight women in a mansion in the 1950s. A murder unleashes a snowball of unearthed secrets, hidden relationships, and general mayhem. (Funny mayhem, that is.)
Only one is guilty, but all are suspects…and each one has a wacky personality (i.e. a hypochondriac, a goody-goody, a beauty queen, a bookworm).
Tickets cost $30, and showtimes are on Jan. 19 and Jan. 20 at 8 pm and Jan. 21 at 4 pm. The play is presented via a collaboration with Coquí Theatre.
Playwright Nilo Cruz, who was born in Cuba but fled to Miami as a youngster, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Ana en el Trópico.
Set in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood in 1929, the play-within-a-play develops as a lector reads Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s 1878 novel Anna Karenina to employees as they hand-roll cigars in a factory. (This was once a common practice in cigar factories, especially ones in Cuba.)
As the employees relate to Anna Karenina, which is full of affairs, failed marriages, dysfunctional families, and government repression, their lives start to spin out of control.
Tickets cost $30, and showtimes are on Jan. 27 at 8 pm and Jan. 28 at 4 pm. The play is presented with Cruzando Caminos Grupo Teatral.
Located at 41-17 Greenpoint Ave. in Sunnyside, Thalía’s performance space has about 75 seats.
Editor’s note: Ocho Mujeres Asesinas is not related to an eight-chapter Mexican series with a similar name that first ran on Vix in 2022.
